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failure modes
Feigenbaum, Edward A.
femtoengineering
Ferucci, Dave
fetus
Feynman, Richard
finance,
see
business, economics, and finance
see
business, economics, and finance
Florence Manifesto Brigade
flying machines
Foch, Marshal
Foglets
fog swarms
food
force-feedback devices
Ford, Henry
Fredkin, Edward
free will
Fried, Itzhak
Friedel, Frederick
Fromherz, Peter
Fuller, R. Buckminster
future of computer technology
in 2009
in 2019
in 2029
in 2099
galaxies
Gates, Bill
General Problem Solver (GPS)
genes, genetic code
Human Genome Project and
redundancies in
reverse engineering of
see also
DNA
see also
DNA
genetic algorithms
see also
evolutionary algorithms
see also
evolutionary algorithms
Gershenfeld, Neil
Gilder, George
Gilmore, John
Gisin, Nicolas
global positioning system (GPS)
glossary
Gödel’s incompleteness theorem
God spot
Goldberg, Ian
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gordian knot
gorillas
grandfather legislation
gravity
Greenspan, Alan
Grinvald, Amiram
guitar, microscopic
Gulf War
Hall, J. Storrs
handwriting
Harries, Richard
health care,
see
medicine
see
medicine
heat
Hesselink, Lambertus
Hillis, W Daniel
Ho, Chih-Ming
Hodgson, Paul
Hofstadter, Douglas
on self-understanding
holograms
Homo erectus
Homo habilis
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens neanderthallensis
Homo sapiens sapiens
Hübener, Mark
human(s):
defining of
MOSHs
Human Genome Project
humanoids
humor
jokes
Huxley, Thomas Henry
hypothalamus
IBM
identity:
definition of “human”
as function of pattern, vs. particles
neural implants and
and transfer of information following brain scan
see also
consciousness
see also
consciousness
Iijima, Sumio
image processing
Improvisor
Industrial Revolution
Second
information
innovation
insects
integrated circuits
Moore’s Law on, see Moore’s Law
neurons and
quantum effects in
intelligence
body and; see also body
consciousness and
defining
density of
duality of
emergence of, and entropy
of evolution;
see also
evolution
see also
evolution
and evolution of technology
hardware of
human vs. artificial
individual vs. group
knowledge and,
see
knowledge
see
knowledge
pattern recognition in,
see
pattern recognition
see
pattern recognition
relevance to rest of Universe
time use as element of
Turing Test and,
see
Turing Test
see
Turing Test
see also
artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence
intelligence, paradigms for
combining of
evolutionary algorithms,
see
evolutionary algorithms
see
evolutionary algorithms
knowledge and
neural net,
see
neural nets
see
neural nets
recursion,
see
recursion
see
recursion
intelligent assistants
intelligent function
internal states
Internet
commerce on
computation harvesting proposal
see also
World Wide Web
see also
World Wide Web
inventions
Isaac, Randy
I’ve Got a Secret
Japan
JAPE (Joke Analysis and Production Engine)
Kaczynski, Theodore (Ted)
Kasparov, Gary
Deep Blue’s match with
Kauffman, Stuart
Kay, Alan
Kazantzakis, Nikos
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord
knowledge
bases of
built-in
chunks of
common sense
computers’ acquisition of
context and
in evolution of technology
human downloading of
language and
sharing of
technology and
see also
learning
see also
learning
Kocher, Paul
Koko
Koza, John
Kroto, Harold
Kuno, Susumu
Kurzweil, Ray:
highlights in life of
past predictions made by
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence
Kurzweil Computer Products
Kurzweil Cybernetic Poet
Kurzweil Data Entry Machine
Kurzweil Educational Systems
Kurzweil Music Systems
Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM)
Kurzweil Voice
Kurzweil VoiceMed (Kurzweil Clinical Reporter)
Landauer, Rolf
language
natural
translating of
Turing Test and
language user interfaces (LUIs)
LANs (local area networks)
Lao-tzu
Larson, Steve
Latham, William
Law of Accelerating Returns
applied to computation
applied to evolution
brain scans and
in flow chart
quantum computing and
scanning technologies and
Universe and
Law of Increasing Chaos
Law of Increasing Entropy,
see
second law of thermodynamics
see
second law of thermodynamics
Law of Time and Chaos
laws of thermodynamics,
see
thermodynamics, laws of
see
thermodynamics, laws of
learning
curve of
in neural nets
see also
education; knowledge
see also
education; knowledge
legal system
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Leonardo da Vinci
Lemout & Hauspie (L&H)
Lewis. S.
life
evolution of
life span
light (photons)
optical computing
quantum effects and
LISP (list processing)
listening machines
literary arts
Cybernetic Poet
logical positivism
Logic Theorist
Lovelace, Ada
Ludd, Ned
Luddites
Florence Manifesto Brigade
Kaczynski, Theodore (Ted)
Remember York movement
machines
capabilities of animals vs.
effect on employment
Luddites and, see Luddites
rights of
see also
artificial intelligence; computers; technology
see also
artificial intelligence; computers; technology
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
mammals
Mark 1
markov models
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