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

References

Ask Us Anything I: Computation and Creativity (Listen first!)
Logic theorist
AlphaGo movie

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