/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3885293

Come back when the Yudkowsky has his AI waifu's bugs all ironed out. Actually, just post here when SIAI gets its first researcher with a PhD. Or when anyone in the mainstream of the AI industry attempts to make AGI rather than domain-specific AI.

A fucking love cellular automata!

Picture is a tree emerging from Conway's game of life.

>>3756579

Point being that alife could be infinitely more complex, interesting and valuable than its real-life counterpart.

We could evolve entire ecosystems from scratch. We could write our own chemistry, our own physics, and run entire toy universes while we play with our toy atoms and toy stars and pretend we're Gods.

>>3556151

NKS is pop-sci, technically (I haven't read it, yet). The KSRM not so much, but it's still possible to grasp most of it, if not all, regardless of your background. You have to know general stuff about computers and stuff, but I haven't found a thing I didn't understand, just yet. It's a pretty fucking huge book, though.

>>3365291

We kinda all take it for granted.

>>3258080

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Dv6dDtdcs

"You freeze the brain, you slice it very thinly, these very thin slices you scan using an electron microscope or some other form of microscope, at the nanometer precision. You get these images, you process them in a computer three-dimensional model -- Where are the different synapses and neurons, what are the strengths, what are the connections? You use that to create a computer simulation of the brain, and then you start the simulation."

-- Anders Sandberg, Computational Neuroscientist, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

>>3194139

>>You can watch a simulation like Conway's "Game of Life" all day long and see some amazingly complex interactions between things that look incredibly like life, and would certainly meet your definition of it (as far as you've given it here). But they're still just black and white pixels on a computer monitor. And there's no way to claim that anything else in the universe has any more value than those black and white pixels if you're right.
>mfw