Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’ With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants
to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.
> Last, we deliberately focus on core cognitive capabilities
rather than physical abilities such as motor skills or tactile sensing, as we seek to measure the
capabilities of the mind rather than the quality of its actuators or sensors.
seems pretty unfair to exclude motor skills, especially given
1) how central they are to human economic activity, and
2) how moravec's paradox tells us they are the hard part.
The Penrose–Lucas argument about the implications of Gödel's incompleteness theorem for computational theories of human intelligence was criticized by mathematicians,[16][17][18][19] computer scientists,[20] and philosophers,[21][22][23][24][25] and the consensus among experts[7] in these fields is that the argument fails,[26][27][28] with different authors attacking different aspects of the argument.[28][29]
so, rejected by consensus. someone should update the book page so this expert rejection is clearer.
yup and his book was reviewed as such at the time. mention of the rejection of his theory by professional philosophers however keeps getting edited out of the wikipedia page. See this exchange on the talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind
>> "The book's thesis is considered erroneous by experts in the fields of philosophy, computer science, and robotics."
> Wooooah, there. That's a massive accusation to add, unsourced, and without any discussion. There needs to be a source for this statement, not to mention an opposing view. It seems unlikely the guy would win an award for a book no one thinks is right. I'm deleting it unless someone comes up with a pretty good source. Joker1189 (talk) 20:43, 27 July 2010 (UTC)