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Published: April 24, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

Disney \n\n

Westworld is some Disneyworld-level theme park logistics. Star Wars Galaxy\u2019s Edge. Westworld ticket prices.

\n\n The Wild West \n\n

The mythos. Cowboys shootin\u2019 and rootin- tootin\u2019. The time period. The expansion of settlement exceeding governmental reach and the perception of lawlessness.

\n\n TV vs Movie \n\n

Deep questions about consciousness and self and where they really really aren\u2019t.

\n\n AI in the 70s \n\n

Depictions of artificial general intelligence in the period and how awesome 2001: A Space Odyssey was/is. The \u201cAI Winter.\u201d The Lighthill Debate on Artificial Intelligence. Heuristics. Teaching our machines to learn. Neural net black boxes. Machines created by other machines.

\n\n Smart AI/dumb AI \n\n

Collections of very convincing modules, sans consciousness, vs AGI. In what way can a computer system \u201cunderstand\u201d language?

\n\n Sensory processing \n\n

How long it takes humans and machines to adapt to moving in their environments. The speed of artificial neural networks in learning and human evolution of millennia. Computer vision in 1973! Face tracking. Human attention to human attention.

\n\n Robotics! \n\n

The difficulty in developing human-like robots. Our subconscious alertness to any oddness in our human-to\u2013human interactions. The people-watching your brain does when you\u2019re not watching.

\n\n Computer viruses \n\n

Coinage. Von Nuemann\u2019s \u201cself-replicating automata.\u201d

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1. \n\t\t\t\tThe Lighthill Debate on Artificial Intelligence [1973]: YouTube\n\t\t\t
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2. \n\t\t\t\tWestworld (the series): iTunesAmazon\n\t\t\t
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