Turing 2012

Turing 2012: International Conference on Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences was held at De La Salle University on March 27-28, 2012. I did attend the conference and it made me realize that I am joining the centenary of Alan Mathison Turing's birth. The conference had the aim of highlighting the significance and influences made by the existence and life of the late Alan Turing.

Among the speakers is the philosopher David Chalmers. Sir David put forth the idea of Singularity. Singularity is a potential state of mankind. What is it? I do not have an iota of credibility to talk about it as it entails a profound discussion of several underlying concepts, theories and hypotheses. Weak Artificial Infelligence, Strong Artificial Intelligence, AI+, AI++, Defeaters, etc. have to be understood as well. Mention was made of More's law on computer power: It used to be that the speed/power of computers doubles every two years, then it became every eighteen months, then every year, then every six months... The change tends towards an asymptotic behavior towards zero. That's when singularity is attained at which time every mind gets uploaded...

In Computer Science, the Turing Machine is a must understand topic. A barometer for soil ability via the computer of A problem is posited by the Turing's Thesis., the general idea of which is - any problem that can be modeled by the Turing Machine is computable. Dr. Arnulfo Azcarraga, who Happened to be the best professor I ever had, delivered a concise but sufficient lecture on the Turing Machine coupled with his analysis, based on written accounts, on whether or not, Turing was referring to the human being as the machine component of the Turing Machine...