Category Archives: Artificial intelligence

How To Create A Mind (book review)

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Dave Hutchinson

In November Ray Kurzweil published a book titled How to Create A Mind, and five weeks later he was hired by Google as chief engineer. The book lays out a pattern-recognition theory of mind, arguing that this idea is reflected in advances in artificial intelligence, and can be inferred from developments in neuroscience. If true, the field of AI may leap forward with Kurzweil as the guiding hand of Google’s laboratory. In any case, the theory deserves close study. Here is my short (ten-page) summary of his book, and a few comments. Continue reading →

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Singularity Summit Day 2

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Dave Hutchinson

[All videos for the summit are available. Click a link, then click “Watch Full Video]. See also my review for Day 1 of Singularity Summit.  On the second day of the Singularity Summit, presenters took their gloves off, rolled up … Continue reading →

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Singularity Summit Day 1

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Dave Hutchinson

[All videos for the summit are available.  Click a link, then click “Watch Full Video]. See also my review of Day 2 of Singularity Summit. The Singularity Summit is an annual gathering of self-identified freethinkers, visionaries, futurists, geeks, rationalists, optimistic … Continue reading →

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Lifelogging

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Dave Hutchinson

Capturing everything about your life is now a real possibility. If you could, would you record every conversation, every minute of every day? It is such a strange prospect that we don’t know what to think… Continue reading →

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