Today I received copies of the Chinese Edition of my book "In Our Own Image: the history and future of Artificial Intelligence" sent by my Chinese publisher China Citic Press. To celebrate the arrival of the books a good friend send me this, in Chinese: 正如中国有一句讲到:要想富先修路 - it means (I m...
Year: 2017
The back flipping robot
I know you've seen a robot walk, but have you ever seen one do a backflip? pic.twitter.com/1ch3vnFu7U — Alex Whitcomb (@AlexWhitcomb) November 16, 2017
The fallacy of thinking intelligence as software
During the Enlightenment the human body was thought of as a kind of clock. That was because the dominant technology of the day was mechanical engineering.Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum clock in the 1600s, and in the following decades and centuries, all across Europe, the miraculous ticking of interconnected gears...