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Just One Universal Algorithm Workshop

Hector Zenil — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:15 +0000

C A L L F O R P A P E R S A N D P A R T I C I P A T I O N J O U A L 2 0 0 9 W O R [...]

Physics-like computation, Wolfram’s Principle of Computational Equivalence (PCE) and Church’s thesis

Hector Zenil — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:32:31 +0000

The lack of correspondence between the abstract and the physical world seems sometimes to suggest that there are profound incompatibilities between what can be thought and what actually happens in the real world. One can ask, for example, how often one faces undecidable problems. However, the question of undecidability has been considered to be better [...]

The Shortest Universal Turing Machine Implementation Contest

Hector Zenil — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:52:23 +0000

======================================== The Shortest Universal Turing Machine Implementation Contest ANNOUNCEMENT 23 Dec - 2008 http://www.mathrix.org/experimentalAIT/TuringMachine.html ======================================== Contest Overview ============ In the spirit of the busy beaver competition though related to program-size complexity, we are pleased to announce the “Shortest Universal [...]

The 2008 Midwest NKS Conference: What is computation? How does nature compute?

Hector Zenil — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:21:08 +0000

2008 Midwest NKS Conference: Call for Papers and/or Participation GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS What is computation? (How) does nature compute? 2008 Midwest NKS Conference Fri Oct 31 - Sun Nov 2, 2008 Indiana University — Bloomington, IN http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~dgerman/2008midwestNKSconference/ In 1964, in one of the six Messenger lectures he delivered at Cornell University (later published as a book “The Character of [...]

Misguiding research on Artificial Intelligence.

Hector Zenil — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:40:01 +0000

AthensOriginally uploaded by hzenilc. The field of strong AI, sometimes referred to as artificial general intelligence or AGI, is defined as intelligence that is capable of the same intellectual functions as a human being, including self-awareness and consciousness, I will call the assumed object of study of AGI just agi in lowercases, not only to avoid [...]