What Part of Our Brain Makes Us Human? Brian Christian's book The Most Human Human, newly out in paperback, tells the story of how the author, "a young poet with degrees in computer science and philosophy," set out to win the "Most Human Human" prize in a Turing test weighing natural against artificial intelligence.
Along the way, as he prepares to prove to a panel of judges (via an anonymous teletype interface) that he is not a machine, the book provides a sharply reasoned investigation into the nature of thinking. Are we setting ourselves up for failure by competing with machines in their analytical, logical areas of prowess rather than nurturing our own human strengths? The Turing test attempts to discern whether computers are, to put it most simply, "like us" or "unlike us": humans have always been preoccupied with their place among the rest of creation.
The development of the computer in the twentieth century may represent the first time that this place has changed. Hemispheric Chauvinism: Computer and Creature. Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing. Kwabena Boahen on a computer that works like the brain. Henry Markram builds a brain in a supercomputer. Historia de dos cerebros (Mark Gungor) - Subtitulos en Español.
My Brain Profile. STEPHEN BADYLAK. Entrevista especial. Parte 1. Stephen Badylak on "Regenerative Medicine: Possibilities and Potential" at Singularity Summit 2011. Planet Papert.