David Deutsch
Person on 2 sites
Physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of quantum computation; author of The Fabric of Reality (1997) and The Beginning of Infinity (2011).
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ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
Updated 2012-10-03 -
19 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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AGI research made no progress in its first six decades. (opens korrents.com)
“The enterprise of achieving it artificially — the field of ‘artificial general intelligence’ or AGI — has made no progress whatever during the entire six decades of its existence.”
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AGI must be possible, because the laws of physics make computation universal. (opens korrents.com)
“Despite this long record of failure, AGI must be possible. And that is because of a deep property of the laws of physics, namely the universality of computation.”
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What distinguishes human minds is creativity: the ability to produce new explanations. (opens korrents.com)
“I call the core functionality in question creativity: the ability to produce new explanations.”
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AGI research made no progress in its first six decades. (opens korrents.com)