Multidimensional Intelligence
Intelligence is often presented as a simple linear scale that ranges from some description of “low” to some description of “high”. In fact, intelligence takes on different forms. The linear…
Artificial Intelligence
Sex With AI
We already have the ability to have sex with a variety of machines and to have sex in virtual environments (from telephone and text based sex to full blown virtual…
Intelligence Enhances Sex
Sex is better with a partner because it involves the pleasure of two instead of the pleasure of one and because it expands from the pleasure of self to the…
Evolutionary Computation
Computational techniques that mimic the process of biological evolution are considered to be “evolutionary computation”. This is an umbrella term that can include the areas known as; evolutionary/genetic algorithms, evolutionary/genetic…
Artificial Emotion for AI
Emotion can be categorized as: happy, sad, afraid, angry, trust, disgust, surprise, anticipation. These groups are from Plutchik’s wheel of emotions. He postulated that an entire spectrum of emotional states…
A Limit to Intelligence
In Singularity theory, we often assume there is no limit to the growth of intelligence. That may not be an accurate assumption. While we cannot currently define a limiting factor,…
Beyond Turing
The historical standard for testing AIs for intelligence has been the Turing Test. But it can be argued that the Turing test only confirms a mimicry of human conversation and…
Expert Systems
An expert system is software that attempts to mimic human expertise by searching through a database of known answers or solutions in order to help solve a problem. Chains of…