Scott Fahlman, February 23, 2011
Categories: AI
A friend, Carl Kurlander, runs a Pittsburgh-oriented blog on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette web site. He asked if I would write up a few quick thoughts on the recent “Man vs. Computer” match on Jeopardy, so I did that. The article was written for an intelligent but non-techy audience, and is a bit more superficial than the usual [...]
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Scott Fahlman, February 12, 2011
Categories: AI
In an earlier article, I sketched a mini-theory of human scientific creativity – a theory that, I believe, is in principle implementable in an AI system. I also mentioned that, if this theory is (more or less) correct, it may suggest some techniques that we humans can employ to increase our own scientific creativity. In [...]
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