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Inconspicuous Appeal of Amorphous Computing Systems
Wiedermann, Jiří
Amorphous computing systems typically consist of myriads of tiny simple processors that are randomly distributed at fixed positions or move randomly in a confined volume. The processors are “embodied” meaning that each of them has its own source of energy, has a “body” equipped with various sensors and communication means and has a computational control part. Initially, the processors have no identifiers and from the technological reasons, in the interest of their maximal simplicity, their computational, communication, sensory and locomotion (if any) parts are reduced to an absolute minimum. The processors communicate wirelessly, e.g., in an airborne medium they communicate via a short-range radio, acoustically or optically and in a waterborne medium via molecular communication. In the extreme cases the computational part of the processors can be simplified down to probabilistic finite state automata or even combinatorial circuits and the system as a whole can still be made universally programmable. From the theoretical point of view the structure and the properties of the amorphous systems qualify them among the simplest (non-uniform) universal computational devices. From the practical viewpoint, once technology will enable a mass production of the required processors a host of new applications so far inaccessible to classical approaches to computing will follow.
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Is There Something Beyond AI? Frequently Emerging, but Seldom Answered Questions about Artificial Super-Intelligence
Wiedermann, Jiří
Using the contemporary theories and views of computing and of cognitive systems we indicate possible answers to the following frequently asked questions about artificial intelligence: (i) what is the "computational power" of artificial cognitive systems?; (ii) are there "levels" of intelligence?; (iii) what is the position of human intelligence w.r.t. the "levels" of intelligence?; (iv) is there a general mechanism of intelligence?; (v) can "fully-fledged" body-less intelligence exist?; (vi) can there exist a sentient cloud? We give qualified arguments suggesting that within the large class of computational models of cognitive systems the answers to the previous question are positive. These arguments are mostly based on the author's recent works related to this problematics.
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