Today we [finally] have on someone who actually knows what they're actually talking about: Mr. Bruce Nielson of the excellent Theory of Anything Podcast. We bring him on to straighten us out on the topics of creativity, machine intelligence, Turing machines, and computational universality - We build upon our previous conversation way back in Ask Us Anything I: Computation and Creativity, and suggest listening to that episode first.
Go follow Bruce on twitter (https://twitter.com/bnielson01) and check out his Theory of Anything Podcast here.
(Also Vaden's audio was acting up a bit in this episode, we humbly seek forgiveness.)
We discuss
- Does theorem proving count as creativity?
- Is AlphaGo creative?
- Determinism, predictability, and chaos theory
- Essentialism and a misunderstanding of definitions
- Animal memes and understanding
- Turing Machines and computational universality
- Penrose's "proof" that we need new physics
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