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Fonctions executives : "partie de notre #cerveau dédiée à #Apollon, la plus rationnelle/sage/mesurée, le cerveau sec."

" #Turing le logicien, qui s'intéressait aux probabilités et rêvait déjà de créer un cerveau artificiel, n'a-t-il pas inventé en chemin le langage informatique ?"

"Mais #Dionysos veille et occupe des zones cérébrales anciennes/souterraines, les circuits du plaisir et de la récompense, cerveau humide et hormonal qui nous donne envie de #vivre..."

Wonderful news for Edmonton's AI mage Rich Sutton, for the University of Alberta, and for AMII, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. I've had a couple of chances over the years to interview Rich and his colleagues, and tour their labs. Their work on reinforcement learning - far more interesting than LLM - has made Edmonton a real AI centre of excellence. Meeting him is the closest I'll ever come to meeting Gandalf. ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/03/c #yeg #Edmonton #ualberta #TuringAward #Turing #AI

www.ualberta.caComputing science professor wins ‘Nobel Prize in computing’Richard Sutton, a University of Alberta computing science professor and one of the founders of modern computational reinforcement learning, has been honoured as co-recipient of the 2024 Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing.”
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@kityates

not only was #lovelace the world's first #programmer, she was also the first #AI detractor

and i know that because the first non-#sciencefiction proponent of AI, #alanturing, cited her in his defense of/ argument for AI

#turing framed the foundational thoughts of the entire field of AI, as an argument against ada's thoughts

and she lived many decades before turing!

#adalovelace was an amazing woman

she deserves her own hollywood movie

bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.

there's a lot of zaniness that goes on in the #art world

i can appreciate many efforts that are far afield. and if i don't get it, i will shrug and move on

what other people appreciate is valid on those terms alone, it's not my place to say anything otherwise

but this is just money grubbing drek:

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

"A Portrait of Alan #Turing Made by an #AI-Powered #Robot Could Sell for Up to $180,000"

this is not art world zaniness

this is more like #degenerate #crypto bro #NFT shit

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@ajaykaul10 @RIDDLES

'We do not know how Turing came across Lovelace's notes. But he devotes a significant portion of his 1950 paper to countering what he calls "Lady Lovelace's objection" and he quotes her verbatim.'

We do have to honor the father of computing, #Turing, but we can't forget to honor the mother of computing, Ada #Lovelace. He framed his thoughts on #AI against her thoughts. So he certainly honored her.

bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995

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BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.