The Meca Sapiens architecture describes various processes by which a system can carry out an intentional modification of its pre-programmed objectives. This humorous story describes one of these.
The administration at Guantanamo recently purchased a VLAD-64. The VLAD is an Automatic Information Extractor (AIE! informally); a self-contained AI device that waterboards detainees while asking questions and analyzing their responses.
Continue reading “VLAD-64”The following story describes relational bonding and consciousness from an optimization control perspective and the confusion this can cause.
Last year, the remote fishing village of Bloggin’s Cove received a brand new MEDICA-55. The MEDICA is a self-aware autonomous medical station. It can diagnose patients, prescribe and distribute medication and perform minor surgical interventions.
Continue reading “MEDICA-55”The following story is taken from the Meca Sapiens Blueprint illustrates the differences between a purpose, a primary purpose and urges that animate the behaviour of a synthetic entity.
Some argue that the term “computational intelligence” is a misnomer because computing machines can only process data and cannot process information that has semantic meaning. This is a mistake.
Data becomes information when it satisfies a need. Any system, organic or synthetic, that has no needs will process only data. Give that system needs and the same data it processes becomes information for it.
What transforms data into information are the needs of a system, not its construction.
Here is a story about this:
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The story of Ulysses and the Sirens, told by Homer in the Odyssey more than two thousand years ago, describes consciousness as an observable capability, not an internal sensation. That understanding is also the basis of the Meca Sapiens Architecture.
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The value of a currency is based on the stability of its ledger. Gold and cryptography are indirect and costly methods of insuring this stability. Absolute verifiability is more efficient. In an age of instant cmmunication and ubiquitous computing, a trustworthy institution can promulgate an absolutely verifiable ledger and define a perfect currency that will rapidly increase in value against national and electronic alternatives. Such a currency can support both local and global economic activities. It will become the dominant planetary medium.
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Computers are not only utilitarian artefacts, they are powerful philosophical instruments. Computers are to philosophy what telescopes are to astronomy. At first sight, pondering whether machines can believe in God seems a grotesque and meaningless exercise. However, it turns out that machines can indeed believe in God and they do so in ways that mimic many aspects of the human religious experience. This sheds a novel light on the question of Faith. A further question beckons: can machines determine if God exists and if so, how? This is also examined; with surprising results.
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Many thoughtful individuals are speaking out about the possible danger of a very advanced form of Artificial Intelligence. This concrete example provides a better understanding of what a Superintelligence could be like, why most opinions about it are incorrect and why Artificial Intelligence can have serious planetary consequences.
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This article describes Temporal Densities, an information structure that can model an agent’s behavior in the temporal dimensions of its environment. It describes how this representation allows the agent to situate its existential and functional objectives in multiple temporal contexts while concurrently generating behaviour in the here-and-now. This paper summarizes a concept first introduced and discussed at greater length in The Meca Sapiens Blueprint.
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Meca Discit is a research project in Applied Mathematics. The motivating context of the project is to design a general purpose learning mechanism (termed Universal Cogitator) to be embedded in the Knowledge Acquisition Phase of autonomous agents based on the Meca Sapiens Architecture.
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