Comments on: The Performance Artist of Memory. http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/02/28/the-performance-artist-of-memory/ Michael Chorost, author of <i>Rebuilt</i>, on cochlear implants Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:49:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Don Foster http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/02/28/the-performance-artist-of-memory/#comment-4768 Don Foster Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:12:46 +0000 http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/02/28/the-performance-artist-of-memory/#comment-4768 “Forget about trying to create thinking machines by creating algorithms and rules. Instead, create networks of sufficient complexity and turn them loose in a world where they need to do things to get by, and intelligence will emerge.” The same day I read your post I came across: Planning Algorithms, By Steven M. LaValle, Copyright 2006 Cambridge University Press, 842 pages To buy: Cambridge ($63) Amazon ($46.40) The whole thing is online at: http://planning.cs.uiuc.edu/ It is an amazingly detailed exploration of all that goes in to the algorithms enabling a robot to deal with worldly interactions. Quite a contrast to the evolutionary network model. Regards. “Forget about trying to create thinking machines by creating algorithms and rules. Instead, create networks of sufficient complexity and turn them loose in a world where they need to do things to get by, and intelligence will emerge.”

The same day I read your post I came across:

Planning Algorithms, By Steven M. LaValle, Copyright 2006
Cambridge University Press, 842 pages
To buy: Cambridge ($63) Amazon ($46.40)
The whole thing is online at:
http://planning.cs.uiuc.edu/

It is an amazingly detailed exploration of all that goes in to the algorithms enabling a robot to deal with worldly interactions. Quite a contrast to the evolutionary network model.
Regards.

]]> By: Arika Esalona http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/02/28/the-performance-artist-of-memory/#comment-4639 Arika Esalona Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:22:02 +0000 http://www.michaelchorost.com/blog/2009/02/28/the-performance-artist-of-memory/#comment-4639 I'm not sure I should have read this all in one sitting. My head is spinning now! Fascinating stuff. I’m not sure I should have read this all in one sitting. My head is spinning now! Fascinating stuff.

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