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What is artificial intelligence?
What AI is used for
When you unlock your phone by looking at it, an AI has recognised your face. AIs check for fraud every time you buy something online, monitor your online shopping behaviour, suggest news stories that you are more likely to be interested in, and answer questions in online help desks.
AIs can compose music, design buildings, and paint artworks.
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Artificial Intelligence: Singularity and Virtual Immortality
The growth of technology and Artificial Intelligence(AI) is on track to provide us with:
- Singularity: A merging of human intelligence and AI, resulting in Superstro...
Inner Awareness and AI
... or self-awareness is something many scientists and philosophers are discussing. The fact that there is consciousness inside us, is a big problem for those developing AI, as no matter what they do, and how technologically superior the product is, nobody can explain or even fathom the juggernaut of consciousness.
Qualia: Experiencing Sensations
Qualia relates to the raw sensations of experience, like colours, smells, sounds.
It is through our actual experience that we know what something tastes, looks or smells like, and it is not some information already drilled inside our brains on birth. We have to experience sensations to understand them.
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Neuroevolution
Neuroevolution is a form of artificial intelligence. It is a meta-algorithm, an algorithm for designing algorithms. It adopts the principles of biological evolution in order to design smarter algor...
Evolutionary algorithms
Traditionally, evolutionary algorithms are used to solve specific problems. For instance, the ability to control a two-legged robot. Solutions that perform the best on some metrics are selected to produce offspring.
In spite of successes, these algorithms are more computationally intensive than approaches such as "deep learning."
The steppingstone principle
It goes beyond traditional evolutionary approaches. It explains innovation. Instead of optimizing for a specific goal, it embraces the creative exploration of a diverse population of solutions.
The steppingstone’s potential can be seen by analogy with biological evolution: feathers likely evolved for insulation and only later became handy for flight.
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Safe To Forget
As machines become increasingly capable, along with computer memory, power and space being abundantly available, our brains are in a transition phase.
Earlier we had to remember a lot, do cal...
Information In Your Head
As technology advances and the internet gets dramatically more powerful, the need to retain information in our heads diminishes.
Google and other search engines which deploy AI, work as our 'memory partners' and provide us access to most of the human knowledge.
Peer-To-Peer Memory Networks
Our ancestors had a manual 'peer-to-peer' memory network to pass on knowledge to the future generations; it wasn't reliable but worked for a long time.
Now we believe AI is better and more objective to provide us with information, which might not be the case.