
Ep 146: Mindless
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Is There a Mindless Computer?
Truly serious attempts to emulate minds began with the completely mindless, but have made almost no progress since lovelace in the early 18 hundreds. No one has been able to suggest even the first line of code to instantiate an algaritm which would constitute a genuine universal knowledge creator. Present approaches are about improving capacity of sometimes very complex systems o complete tasks and achieve particular goals. The goals set by the programmer, for example, chess playing computers are designed to win at chess.
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