Artificial life

A prosthetic device in substitution of a heart that is usually used to create more time of life until a transplant can be performed, also known as an artificial heart. An artificial heart creates more time to a heart transplant but it can also be a permanent substitution of the biological one. An artificial heart is very hard to receive, a patient must seriously be ill or about to die before it can even be considered. It is a very costly procedure and the whole transplant itself is very…

The ontogenesis of machines into sentient beings is a direct consequence of the machine’s ability to learn, react and adapt to the changes in its environment. My goal is to use machine learning and artificial intelligence to create perceptive systems and solutions that are scalable, replicable and sustainable. My decision to study machine learning and AI is a culmination of my experience in a multitude of fields. My tryst with computers began in high school when we were asked to develop software…

humans, but other, inorganic life? Machines can think, and we have made them so. A system of neural networks is used to estimate functions that depend on a large number of unknown inputs. Neural networks are labeled the tripe counterpart to AI, Artificial Intelligence. This technology is the intellectual ability exhibited by machines. It has flexible rational agents that perceives its environment or situation, and takes actions that maximize its chance of success. Artificial Intelligence is…

In a world where advancements keep you in the game and a constant looming race towards different creations such as gene editing, artificial intelligence, and etc. are detrimental to success and clout, when is enough enough? A worthwhile theme to consider in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is the lesson of such: Advancements without consideration for possible consequences can lead to disaster. Mary Shelley was born in Somers Town, London, in 1797 and raised by her father William Godwin, who was a…

Two core principles create the foundation for the OneState in Zamyatin’s We: the idea that humans are machines that need to be perfected, and the idea that rationality is the only correct way of thinking about the world. Both of these principles are not inherently evil or irrational, however, as the OneState takes their ideals to the extreme, their principles become less understandable and increasingly unreasonable. D-503’s use of mathematical language and the way he punctuates his record…

Cleverbot is an online AI program that any user can “have a conversation” with. To use the program, one simply has to log onto the host website and type ANY random phrase into the conversation box, be it sensical, nonsensical, inappropriate, innocent...the options are limitless. The AI will then respond, conversation-style, with something similar or related. The nature of this program has baffled many people, and even the creators of the site claim that the average user will feel as if they…

The question of what consciousness is or what we can deem as to be conscious is most fiercely debated topic in this dissertation because its subjective nature; what you and I may consider to have its own consciousness may possibly or rather probably will be different, how then can we build a machine with its own conscience when we has humans still haven’t figured it what it even really means to be conscious. I think therefore I am This very famous statement written by French mathematician and…

of this semester my views about the mind and artificial intelligence have changed. In this paper I will first go through how my views about the human mind have changed going over the brain theory of personal identity, the modularity of the mind and mentalese. I will next explain how my views about artificial intelligence have changed over this semester, focusing on the brain theory, modularity, mentalese, the Turing test and arguments against artificial intelligence. At the beginning of this…

think, nor will they ever, no matter how much technology manages to advance in the future. Searle defends his claim by providing an outline and an interesting thought experiment. His work begins by simply introducing the prevailing views concerning artificial intelligence during the time period. Many individuals thought of human brains and digital computers as analogous due to something known as the Turing Test. The premise of the Turing Test is that if a computer is able to fool a human in a…

TED Talk #3 Discussion Board Perception Thing Section #1: Synopsis Al Seckel is a TED Talk speaker, who specializes in visual illusion. In this TED Talk, Seckel starts off by introducing the audience of what illusions can do towards our minds. He then showed the audience of one specific illusion as his first demonstration, called “Crazy Nuts”. In this illusion, there are 2 nut bolts which the holes are perpendicular to each other, where a rod could go through both. How? Seckel then…