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MUSK AI DONATION. "The $10 million donation is being made to the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a volunteer-run non-profit research and outreach organization “working to mitigate existential risks facing humanity.” FLI’s first area of concern is the “potential risks from the development of human-level artificial intelligence.” https://lnkd.in/dNjihef View in LinkedIn

THE TURING TEST. "It is proposed that a machine may be deemed intelligent, if it can act in such a manner that a human cannot distinguish the machine from another human merely by asking questions via a mechanical link." https://lnkd.in/dA4he3P View in LinkedIn

SMART CONCERNS. "A top signatory who studies artificial intelligence (AI) was Stuart Russell, a computer scientist and founder of the Center for Intelligent Systems at the University of California. Russell is also the co-author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach," a textbook about AI used in more than 100 countries." https://lnkd.in/dKNnZ8G View in LinkedIn

CODE AGENTS ARE DNA PARASITES. “Therefore I suppose that changes in the genetic code, which are of evolutionary relevance, are rather the result of fine-tuned processes by a large network of mobile genetic elements, persistent viruses, its defectives and other genetic parasites that alter DNA sequences.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

NATURAL CODES NEED AGENTS. “It is empirically evident that no natural language speaks itself as no natural code codes itself. It always requires living agents that share a competence to generate and interpret these natural codes.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

NATURAL CODE MEANING IS CONTEXTUAL. “Meaning in natural languages/codes and communication is context dependent. In contrast, artificial formalizable (algorithm based) languages employ a “universal“ syntax in order to determine meaning independent of the contextual circumstances.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

DNA AS NATURAL CODE. “From biological molecules to genetic content operators. Erwin Schrödinger‘s question “What is life?” received the answer for decades of “physics + chemistry”. The concepts of Alain Turing and John von Neumann introduced a third term: “information”. This led to the understanding of nucleic acid sequences as a natural code.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE explores an interesting article by Günther Witzany on DNA as a habitat for retroviruses, and its evolutionary consequences, titled Pragmatic turn in biology: From biological molecules to genetic content operators. Witzany, a philosopher, collaborated with virologist Luis Villarreal; in the words of Villarreal: “One of the most fundamental concepts to emerge for me in the last five years has come from talking to the philosopher Günther Witzany about the history of science and language.“ https://lnkd.in/dp4diBc View in LinkedIn