Word: actualizing
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...film industry." In other major awards, Nicholas Cage won best actor for his portrayal of a suicidal alcoholic in "Leaving Las Vegas." Susan Sarandon, who had been shut out after four previous nominations, won best actress for the role of Sister Helen Prejean in "Dead Man Walking." The actual Louisiana nun, who tried to reform a death-row inmate, was in the audience. In terms of genuine emotion, TIME's Attinger says, Sarandon's moment ranked with Mira Sorvino's win for best supporting actress for her portrayal of a prostitute in "Might Aphrodite." Sorvino, verging on tears, thanked...
...state senate minority leader Ken Jenne says that last Tuesday he was approached by Jon L. Shebel, president and ceo of the powerful Associated Industries of Florida, a lobbying group that includes Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds and the Tobacco Institute. Shebel confirms that a conversation took place in which actual dollar amounts were bandied about. He admits that he mentioned payments of $105 million a year, "for a long time, maybe indefinitely," to settle the state's $1.4 billion lawsuit. He says he was not talking with Jenne at the behest of the tobacco industry, but comments, "We all know...
These two "hard" questions about consciousness--the extraness question and the water-into-wine question--don't depend on artificial intelligence. They could occur (and have occurred) to people who simply take the mind-as-machine idea seriously and ponder its implications. But the actual construction of a robot like Cog, or of a pandemonium machine, makes the hard questions more vivid. Materialist dismissals of the mind-body problem may seem forceful on paper, but, says McGinn, "you start to see the limits of a concept once it gets realized." With AI, the tenets of strict materialism are being realized...
Later I discovered the truth. Deep Blue's computational powers were so great that it did in fact calculate every possible move all the way to the actual recovery of the pawn six moves later. The computer didn't view the pawn sacrifice as a sacrifice at all. So the question is, If the computer makes the same move that I would make for completely different reasons, has it made an "intelligent" move? Is the intelligence of an action dependent on who (or what) takes...
...minutes of self-congratulatory remarks from all the global egos present. They went on so long that Clinton, having flown overnight aboard Air Force One with a rambunctious King Hussein of Jordan as a roommate, periodically verged on nodding off. In fact, the hour allotted for the actual meeting of the leaders had to be cut back to 20 minutes because of the remarks. In any case, negotiations weren't the reason for the summit in the first place. A picture is worth at least $100 million, the amount Clinton pledged to Israel the next day toward an antiterror campaign...