Author: Gualtiero Piccinini

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A couple of weeks ago, I asked whether anyone would comment on a paper of mine on connectionist computation.  Several people contacted me and later sent me very hepful comments.  Many thanks to them.I’ve now used Brains to receive helpful comments on my work several times, and I know other contributors have …

Why people have sex.An article about recent research on priming and how unconscious processes affect our behavior.A long article on sociable robots.

I just found this article by computer scientist Peter Kassan in the magazine Skeptic, entitled “AI Gone Awry: The Futile Quest for Artificial Intelligence”.  Even though there are a few minor glitches and a more negative attitude towards AI than I have, I think Kassan’s article is a nice, updated debunking of …

Benoit Hardy-Vallee, of the University of Toronto, has posted a review of decision making from the point of view of neuroeconomics on his blog, Natural Rationality.  The article is forthcoming in Philosophy Compass.  Benoit is hoping to receive feedback on his article before it gets published.  He also told me …

A team at the University of Alberta, led by Jonathan Schaeffer, has solved the game of checkers.  Through brute force calculations, they have shown that when played perfectly, checkers results in a draw.  As a consequence, their checkers playing program, Chinook, is now unbeatable by either human or machine.  Checkers …

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