The Robot Does Not Exist: Remixing Psychic Automatism and Artificial Creative Intelligence

Quantum nonlocality does not exist.

Quantum nonlocality is shown to be an artifact of the Copenhagen interpretation, in which each observed quantity has exactly one value at any instant. In reality, all physical systems obey quantum mechanics, which obeys no such rule. Locality is restored if observed and observer are both assumed to obey quantum mechanics, as in the many-worlds interpretation (MWI). Using the MWI, I show that th...

The central executive does not exist.

In this article I critically review the concept of the central executive. I argue that the experimental evidence for a central executive lacks rigor to the point where it is an unfalsifiable construct. I examine the neuropsychological and neuroradiological evidence and demonstrate that there is no localization evidence for a central executive. What emerges instead is a pattern of extensive hete...

STAIR: The STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot project

We describe an application of learning and probabilistic reasoning methods to the problem of having a robot fetch an item in response to a verbal request. Done on the STAIR (STanford AI Robot) platform, this work represents a small step towards our longer term goal of building general-purpose home assistant robots. Having a robot usefully fetch items around a home or office requires that it be ...

Creative machines: The next frontier in artificial intelligence

Making Faces: Information Does Not Exist

In this article we attempt three things. First, to show that common conceptions and usages of the term 'information' are misleading; they lead to particular misunderstandings and misdirections, particularly amongst those disciplines and practices which locate information at their core. Second, to describe a conceptual framework which helps explain why information as conventionally conceived doe...