Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Steven A Smith
thanks for the reference, I was not aware of the Renesan Institute before this, though I had heard somewhere about the first listed lecture/course/seminar on "the Trickster". I don't see your course in the lineup? I will be out of

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Prof David West
Steve, it is a Renesan course on Tue, September 7 and 14. I have read Jack Williamson, not all 90, and he would have been included in another course I proposed to Renesan on science fiction themes. Maybe in the future. davew On Wed, Aug 9, 2017, at 09:57 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Dave - > Mo

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Steven A Smith
Dave - Most excellent of you to do this, and what will be your venue for this class? Are you familiar with our own Jack Williamson 's vague parallel work in his "Humanoids" which began in 1947 with the Novelette: "With Folded Hands". I do not

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Prof David West
For what its worth - I will be teaching a short class next month in Santa Fe, "Isaac Asimov and the Robots." Two points of coverage: 1) the robots themselves invent and follow a "Zeroth Law" that allows them to eliminate individual human beings with a result the exact opposite of Hawking et. al.'s

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread gepr ⛧
FWIW, I tend to use stochastic to mean a process with a collection of variables, some of which are (pseudo) randomly set and some of which are not. A "random process" would imply a process where either all the variables are random OR where the randomly set variables are dominant. A process can b

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Marcus Daniels
Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Right. Then you use gradient ascent. But what if you are scheduling a job shop for throughput when there are thousands of variables most of which have discrete values? Frank Frank Wimber

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Frank Wimberly
om> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 8, 2017 10:15:05 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence > > My point was that depth-first and breadth-first can probably serve only as > a straw-man (st

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-09 Thread Marcus Daniels
stinguishing between pseudo-random and `truly' random. Marcus From: Grant Holland Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 12:40:48 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Marcus Daniels; glen ☣ Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intel

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Grant Holland
ess functions, and they are trivial to parallelize. Marcus *From:* Friam on behalf of Grant Holland *Sent:* Tuesday, August 8, 2017 4:51:18 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; glen ☣ *Subject

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Grant Holland
[mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Grant Holland *Sent:* Tuesday, August 08, 2017 6:51 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group ; glen ☣ *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Thanks for throwing in on this one, Glen. Your thoughts ar

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
ed Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence My point was that depth-first and breadth-first can probably serve only as a straw-man (straw-men?). Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Aug 8, 2017 10:11 PM, "Marcus Daniels" mailto:mar...

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
gt; -- > *From:* Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly < > wimber...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 8, 2017 7:57:06 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
_ From: Friam on behalf of Frank Wimberly Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 7:57:06 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Then there's best-first search, B*, C*, constraint-directed search, etc.

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
2017 6:43:40 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; glen ☣ > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence > > > Grant writes: > > > "On the other hand... evolution *is* stochastic. (You actually did not > disagree with

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
6:43:40 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; glen ☣ Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Grant writes: "On the other hand... evolution is stochastic. (You actually did not disagree with me on that. You only said that the reason I was right

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
n ☣ Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Thanks for throwing in on this one, Glen. Your thoughts are ever-insightful. And ever-entertaining! For example, I did not know that von Neumann put forth a set theory. On the other hand... evolution is stochastic. (You actually d

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Nick, It's actually more like six thousand pages. However many pages thousands of rabbis can write in 600 years, more or less. Deborah found it and posted it on ou

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Gillian Densmore
@Nick that's a fair question. On a pragmatic side not much...yet. However as I understand it (some) amount of AI was invaluable for making pretty gud guesses about frustrating issues: Like what the heck is going on with the weather. Robots and androids (so far) are better then humans at somethings.

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Nick Thompson
://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Grant Holland Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 6:51 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group ; glen ☣ Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Thanks for

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Nick Thompson
esigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 5:32 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Nick, It's actually more like six tho

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Grant Holland
Thanks for throwing in on this one, Glen. Your thoughts are ever-insightful. And ever-entertaining! For example, I did not know that von Neumann put forth a set theory. On the other hand... evolution /is/ stochastic. (You actually did not disagree with me on that. You only said that the reason

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
on > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank > Wimberly > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 08, 2017 1:56 PM

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Nick Thompson
ickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 1:56 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Talmud: Do not be dau

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread glen ☣
I'm not sure how Asimov intended them. But the three laws is a trope that clearly shows the inadequacy of deontological ethics. Rules are fine as far as they go. But they don't go very far. We can see this even in the foundations of mathematics, the unification of physics, and polyphenism/r

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Grant Holland
Complexity Coffee Group; Carl Tollander *Subject:*Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence That sounds right, Carl. Asimov's three "laws" of robotics are more like Asimov's three "wishes" for robotics. AI entities are already no longer serv

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Frank Wimberly
cus > -- > *From:* Friam on behalf of Grant Holland < > grant.holland...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Monday, August 7, 2017 11:38:03 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Carl Tollander > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Pamela McCorduck
lf of Grant Holland <mailto:grant.holland...@gmail.com>> > Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:38:03 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Carl Tollander > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence > > That sounds right, Carl. Asimov&#

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Grant Holland
uestion of if they work, it is an academic question of why they work. Marcus *From:* Friam on behalf of Grant Holland *Sent:* Monday, August 7, 2017 11:38:03 PM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Carl Tollander *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial i

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
mic question of why they work. Marcus From: Friam on behalf of Grant Holland Sent: Monday, August 7, 2017 11:38:03 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group; Carl Tollander Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence Th

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-07 Thread Grant Holland
That sounds right, Carl. Asimov's three "laws" of robotics are more like Asimov's three "wishes" for robotics. AI entities are already no longer servants. They have become machine learners. They have actually learned to project conditional probability. The cat is out of the barn. Or is it that

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-07 Thread Carl Tollander
The notion of AI's as necessarily sentient seems a bit of a jump. However, I see a difference between an AI augmented sentience (a la a spiffy AR) and a bunch of possibly sentient AI's flying in formation (a la a murder of crows or a pack of wolves). Going further out into Niel Stephenson's D.O.D

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
Here in the US there are many human animals to reign-in first. Sentients will need to stick together and accept the help they can get! Sent from my iPhone On Aug 7, 2017, at 9:54 PM, Carl Tollander mailto:c...@plektyx.com>> wrote: It seems to me that there are many here in the US who are not

Re: [FRIAM] Future of humans and artificial intelligence

2017-08-07 Thread Carl Tollander
It seems to me that there are many here in the US who are not entirely on board with Asimov's First Law of Robotics, at least insofar as it may apply to themselves, so I suspect notions of "reining it in" are probably not going to fly. On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 1:57 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez wro