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Re:Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powe... by throwanem on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @08:09AM (#12128347)
It'll need to grow a concept of "I" first, and that's probably not very likely; there's a reasonable case that self-awareness is an evolutionary cul-de-sac.
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Re:Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powe... by liquidmetal on Thursday July 21, 2016 @04:42PM (#12139902)
Tangent here - self-awareness is an evolutionary cul-de-sec? Do you have any further reading suggestions on this?
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Re:Google Cuts Its Giant Electricity Bill with DeepMind-Powe... by throwanem on Saturday July 30, 2016 @09:35AM (#12192898)
Peter Watts's Blindsight - good fiction on the one hand, and exhaustively referenced on the other. (Watts is the only sf author I've run across whose novels include discussions and bibliographies of the research he used to inform and shape the narrative. In addition to earning him a new high score on the hardness scale, this seems counterintuitively to produce better stories, not worse ones.)
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