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Stanford Symbolic Systems Distinguished Speaker Lecture Thursday, March 6, 2013.
Douglas Hofstadter, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature. Indiana University.
What is a quintessential category? Bird, perhaps? Or maybe chair? And what is a quintessential concept? Two? Number? Prime number?
I’m not trying to put words into your mouth — I’m just trying to get you to ask yourself these questions. Also, I wonder if by any chance you thought that these are really exactly the same question, in which case you might have wondered why I asked you the same question twice.
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In this Presidential Lecture, cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter examines the role and contributions of analogy in cognition, using a variety of analogies to illustrate his points.
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Wonderful book.
Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, voices his concerns about how the current wave of rapid advancements in AI may endanger humanity.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction.
0:34 When I started out, computers were rigid.
1:29 I thought Artificial Intelligence would take hundreds of years.
1:59 I never imagined computers would rival humans so soon.
2:53 It feels like humans are about to be eclipsed.
4:01 I feel diminished, inferior.
5:01 AI pioneer Geoff Hinton may regret part of his life’s work.
6:07 Conclusion: what do you think?
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• Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter…
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Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a technique to carve microscopic liquid-cooling channels directly inside silicon semiconductor chips.
Interestingly, the computer architecture slashed the energy required for cooling by pumping ordinary, room-temperature water straight through the chip’s internal structure.
“As the performance of AI semiconductors and advanced electronic packaging becomes increasingly limited by heat, we expect this technology to serve as a foundational cooling solution for future high-performance computing systems,” said Professor Sung Jin Kim.