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EXTERNAL ADMINISTRATION. "PACAP has also a strong modifying effect on the energy metabolism. Intracerebroventricularly administered PACAP appeared to stimulate catabolic effects on energy metabolism in chicken: it increased body temperature, metabolic rate and lipid utilization. Moreover, increased PACAP concentrations in the chicken brain inhibited feeding, which was later shown to be mediated by corticosterone release." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/02/11/rspb.2010.2567 View in LinkedIn

CONSTANTLY PROCESSING. "According to Unconscious Thought Theory, we are always processing information, much in the same way that AlphaGo does. We hierarchically organize trillions of eletro-chemical information packets, just like AlphaGo organizes trillions of electronic information packets." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

LESSON GENERALIZATION. "But the key difference between AlphaGo and its predecessors is that this coding was designed to be generalizable – in other words, AlphaGo, like humans, can generalize lessons from one domain into another." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

ADDITIVE SIMPLICITY. "Essentially, simple processes are combined with other simple processes and the result is complexity. That is a simplification, but in principle that is how AI machines “learn” – they take what they already “know” (what’s been coded into them) and combine and recombine that into all of the varieties that can be combined." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

PREMATURE CROWING. "That notion of “building” thought processes is something that AI developers used to dream about it, and they’ve accomplished that dream." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

INTUITIVE INTELLIGENCE. "According to Unconscious Thought Theory (see the work of Ap Dijksterhuis), and popular books like Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, human intuition may be our own version of the kind of processing that AlphaGo was doing when it defeated Lee Sedol in Go." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

INTELLIGENT INTELLIGENCE. "Go” is the ancient game of strategy, with more possible game board configurations than there are stars in the universe. Those are the kinds of figures we once reserved for describing the number of connections in the human brain. It seems fitting that we turn our attention to “artificial” intelligence as it begins to look less artificial and more intelligent." https://lnkd.in/dxGnwJ3 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this section on genes that code for animal migration. The feat of the Painted Lady or Monarch butterfly migration is probably beyond our comprehension. Descriptive molecular biology and genetics may have reached its limits with a coded description of journey and a sense of place. This Fragment is dedicated to my old friend, naturalist, and entomologist, grappling inimitable with the sense of place, Matthew Oates. View in LinkedIn

GENE OF A SENSE OF PLACE. What information might a migratory gene or genes be expected to carry to inform the migrating creature where to go? An image? A particular scent? A longitude and latitude fix? All conveyed in molecules encoded in genes? This is the very root of inherited memory. What a concept. View in LinkedIn

BODY LANGUAGE PERCEPTION. "An important step towards this goal is the acquisition, analysis, and integration of both explicit and non-explicit user communications within the human-robot control loop, such as user intent. Essentially, the robot should respond to non-verbal cues, similar to the “body language” of the user. Through the incorporation of non explicit communication, we hope that human-robot cooperation can be improved." https://lnkd.in/d4TDzgw View in LinkedIn