Earlier this year, a group of Japanese scientists reported that with appropriate training, the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum can anticipate the timing of periodic events.
http://arxivblog.com/?p=684
Articles in category 'Intelligence'
The Chinese Room argument is a thought experiment and associated arguments designed by John Searle (Searle 1980) to show that a symbol processing machine like a computer can never be properly described as having a “mind” or “understanding”, regardless of how intelligently it may behave.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Room
I’ve had this in tab for about a week now and […]
Massachusetts is the brain of the United States. If this is true, why didn’t Silicon Valley manifest itself off Route 128? I don’t know how viable this data is, North Dakota has the second highest average IQ? Ehh …
http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/view/SGXXRFsOtha6cGEMGuwWF2-
Declassified secret CIA docs tell analysts how to analyze intelligence …
Interesting.
This volume pulls together and republishes, with some editing, updating, and additions, articles written during 1978-86 for internal use within the CIA Directorate of Intelligence. Four of the articles also appeared in the Intelligence Community journal Studies in Intelligence during that time frame. The information […]
As if you needed more reason to become a vegetarian.
For years, scientists believed that the parts of the human brain that supported complex thought and language had only recently evolved. The mental life of animals was treated as primitive and utterly distinct from ours. But an explosion in animal research is showing that many components […]
This could be important for the AGI developers who frequent our site (BG!)
Despite a long history of research and debate, there is still no standard definition of intelligence. This has lead some to believe that intelligence may be approximately described, but cannot be fully defined.
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We’re still utilizing the U-2 in the era of satellite reconaissance?
The U-2 flies so high, so fast, the pilot wears a spacesuit, the same one worn by astronauts on the space shuttle. Out on the runway, you can see why it is considered the most difficult plane in the world to fly. Each pilot has […]
