The Multiverse According to Ben

I explained, in a recent blog post, Why Humans Are So Screwy .   But I didn't quite finish the story there.   Here I'll explain a...

I read today about a new variant of recurrent neural nets called Conceptor Networks , which look pretty. interesting, In fact this looks ...

I've been a fan of Derek Bickerton's writing and thinking on linguistics since happening upon Language and Species in a Philadelph...

Recently we've seen a bunch of Silicon Valley money going into "deep learning" oriented AI startups -- an exciting trend fo...

Aha!!! ... Last night I had the amusing and satisfying feeling that I was finally grokking the crux of the reason why we humans are so ...

Interesting new paper by Stephen Hawking, though I only half-understand it... (ok maybe 2/3 ...) http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.5761v1.pdf Basic...

Oh, the irony... At the same time as my OpenCog project is running an Indieogogo crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising funds to cr...

Today Damien Broderick pointed out to me an Edge interview with physicist Lee Smolin, which led me to a fascinating article by Smolin tit...

What a bummer to read that Ray Manzarek has died.    I was born in 1966, and the psychedelic rock of the late 1960s and early 1970s wa...

Hmmm.... I was talking with my pal Gino Yu at his daughter Oneira's birthday party yesterday … and Gino was sharing some of his inte...