Tim Radford reassesses the independent scientist’s groundbreaking body of writing. Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence James Lovelock Allen Lane (2019) [He developed] a sustained and developing argument, in the face of sometimes dismissive criticism, that recast Earth as, in effect, a superorganism. Lovelock’s Gaia theory states that, for much of the past 3.8 billion years, a […]
May CACOR Ottawa Lunch Meeting: The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence
Title: The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Where is AI Heading? Speaker: Peter MacKinnon About the presentation: Artificial Intelligence is one of the latest technical buzz terms one tends to encounter in the news and in every day conversation these days. This address will go behind the news and explore some […]
Playing Intelligence
How games and game engines can provide new ways of comprehending networked and distributed forms of intelligence. gaming could serve as an alternative to voting — could potentially be realized with a plurality of people gaming national and global eventualities. For any given issue, different proposals could be gamed in parallel. As some games collapsed, […]
The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities & Threats
Title: The Rise & Foreseeable Future of Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities & Threats Date: Wednesday January 16th 2019 Speaker: Peter MacKinnon Time: 12-2pm Place: Army Officers’ Mess, 149 Somerset Street West, Ottawa Cost: $25 general admission; $20 for members, their spouses and $10 for student guests. The upstairs ante-room and dining area will be open at 11:30 for those who wish […]
A brief look into the past, present, and future of machine learning -Kevin Cheung
In this presentation, we will take a look at a few of the important milestones in artificial intelligence research. We will take a quick dive into artificial neural networks and consider some of the issues in their design and training. We end by making some speculations on the future impact of machine learning. YouTube Link.. […]
