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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

Futurum

At the University of Technology , Sydney, Australia, Professor Chin-Teng Lin is on the frontline of pioneering the development of such systems. Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. TALK LIKE A … COMPUTER SCIENTIST. Download the article.

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Will AIs Take All Our Jobs and End Human History—or Not? Well, It’s Complicated…

Stephen Wolfram

But actual evolution seems more like deep learning with a large neural net—where one’s effectively operating in an extremely high-dimensional space where there’s typically always a “way to get there from here”, at least given enough time. And indeed simple models of evolution might give one the intuition that this would happen.

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