Superintelligence

 Superintelligence is the title of a book written by Nick Bostrom. This book is enjoyable to read, the author is well aware of what has been done in AI. For instance, he considers bootstrap as one of the possible ways for creating superintelligence, he mentions the crossover point where the intelligence of the improving system […]

Cows are thirsty

 Several years ago, I was in the subway with one of my children. For keeping him entertained, I asked him a question: “what are the cows drinking?” Knowing me, he did not answer immediately: he sniffed out a trap, it was too easy to answer this question! A passenger, whom I did not know, was […]

DONALD revisited

When one claims that an AI system has solved a problem, it is important to specify how this problem has been defined: what is the problem really solved. Let us again consider the DONALD problem. I chose to give CAIA a formulation using the carries that we are using when we are performing an addition. […]

When DONALD and GERALD meet ROBERT

 A crypt-arithmetic problem is defined by one (or several) equations, where the digits are represented by letters. One has to find the value associated with each letter so that the operation is true; different letters must have different values. Moreover, the first letter of each number must be different from zero. The crypt-additions, where the […]