Comment Re:Simple English Wikipedia (Score 2) 266
This is probably correct. PubMed: 98% advanced
Can anyone figure out why science is so much more "advanced" than Nature? Both seem pretty similar to me.
Oh, and by way of a control group:
This is probably correct. PubMed: 98% advanced
Can anyone figure out why science is so much more "advanced" than Nature? Both seem pretty similar to me.
Oh, and by way of a control group:
When it comes to robots, the means justify the ends.
In accordance with the rule of cool, anyway.
Just when I was think how stupid Vikings are, and how no one in their right mind would create a military vehicle to switch between two forms of combat when you could just stay in the air, I see this.
Oh, and it's VTOL, too? Better and better.
I immediately bought an RFID blocking wallet.
You mean you lined it with tinfoil? Yeah, me too. I've also got a stylish hat and matching suit made of the same material. The underwear is a little itchy at times, but you'll get used to it.
I'd like to point out that it's not even to the level of what a newborn can do...there's quite a bit of syanptic plasticity that occurs throughout development (much of which we're just starting to understand thanks to environmental toxins), and there's two separate stages of neuronal dieback that occur - one before birth, and the other right around birth. 90% of the neurons end up dead, and it's not a signal encoded in the genome (well, the pro and anti-apoptosis genes are part of the genome, but they're activated by environmental signals). Specifically, neurons which are not being used die. Kurzweil would have a system with an order of magnitude more neurons than it needs, and those neurons are going to generate more noise in his system than a rock band playing next to a patch-clamp recorder.
Following this line of dieback+plasticity logic, I'd be more inclined to suggest that "strong AI" is not likely to come around from trying to understand the role of every gene in the genome (that's the holy grail of biology), but rather to come about from an artificial neural network trained via dieback and backpropagation (backpropagation is fairly similar to LTP seen in biological systems). But, I'm no expert.
To whit
Don't you mean "to wit". Are you sure you speak English fluently?
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