computers
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The creator’s secret sauce
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2 min read
As creators, we strive for the highest quality of experience. We like to enter an imaginative zone and let the energy pour out when we get to work. Some make for the audience, others craft without the intention of succeeding — complete freedom. Both parties can produce the unpredictable and still break the mold. We…
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Information is the sum of parts
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1 min read
The brain is just a collection of tangled wires with neuron connectivity levels. We call its output ‘information’ because we need some way of describing chemical synchronicity. The computer works the same way. On the inside, it’s a collection of chips and wires with various voltage levels. What we see on screen is what we…
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Are we living in a computer simulation?
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Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information. So does a simulated life mean that we can live forever? Says theoretical physicist James Gates: “If the simulation hypothesis is valid, then we open the door to eternal life and resurrection and things that formally have…
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A brain without a body
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2 min read
Artificial intelligence is like a brain without a body. Instead of billions of neurons, computers contain bits and bytes of varying voltage levels so they can do stuff like provide directions, select and edit our best photos, or beat humans at chess. Deep Blue beat Kasparov not by matching his insight and intuition but by overwhelming…