I thought I'd pass this on from another group.... Maybe one of us who is local can go along? Damn I wish I was there... :-) --------------------------------------------------
Here is a debate this Thursday at MIT on a really big question: Creativity: the mind, machines, and mathematics A Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Alan Turing's Seminal Paper "On Computable Numbers" featuring a debate on the limits of intelligent machines and a lecture on Turing's contributions. In Celebration of: 100 years anniversary of the birth of Kurt Gödel 70 years since Alan Turing’s seminal paper “On computable numbers” 50 years since the start of Artificial Intelligence research at Dartmouth College 4:30-5:30pm Public Debate David Gelernter vs. Ray Kurzweil Moderated by Rodney Brooks Are we limited to building super-intelligent robotic 'zombies' or will it be possible and desirable for us to build conscious, creative, volitional, perhaps even 'spritual' machines? http://www.mitpublicevent.org/program.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---