My Father and Me. A Memoir. For Mayer Spivack (1936 – 2011)
My father, Mayer Spivack, passed away on February 12, 2011, in the Kaplan Family House, a beautiful hospice outside of Boston. He passed away, at the young age of 74, after a difficult year and a half...
View ArticleIs the Universe a Computer? New Evidence Emerges.
I haven’t posted in a while, but this is blog-worthy material. I’ve recently become familiar with the thinking of University of Maryland physicist, James Gates Jr. Dr. Gates is working on a branch of...
View ArticleConsciousness is Not a Computation
In the previous article in this series, Is The Universe a Computer? New Evidence Emerges I wrote about some new evidence that appears to suggest that the universe may be like a computer, or least that...
View ArticleA New Approach to Artificial Intelligence: Non-Computational AI
I was recently contacted by a computer scientist, Sergey Bulanov, who has been working quietly for 20 years on a new approach to artificial intelligence. It’s a pretty interesting and novel approach,...
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Bottlenose – The Now Engine – The Web’s Collective Consciousness Just Got...
Recently, one of Twitter’s top search engineers tweeted that Twitter was set to “change search forever.” This proclamation sparked a hearty round of speculation and excitement about what was coming...
View ArticleHow Bottlenose Could Improve the Media and Enable Smarter Collective...
How Bottlenose Could Improve the Media and Enable Smarter Collective Intelligence This article is part 4 in a series of articles about the Bottlenose Public Beta launch. Bottlenose – The Now Engine –...
View ArticleCan Humans Fall in Love With Bots?
I was quoted in this New Yorker article about whether relationships between humans and bots are real, along with some other AI experts. Can bots experience love? Read it and find out.
View ArticleHow Bitcoins Could Restructure the World
Read my article in VentureBeat about how Bitcoins may restructure our civilization, and the need for advocacy to support this transition, if it is going to happen. Here’s an excerpt: Bitcoin is a trend...
View ArticleMy Thoughts on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (Live Panel Discussion)
I had the honor of participating in a panel on the future of AI with a group of industry luminaries, led by Kevin Kelly of WIRED Magazine. Watch the discussion here.
View ArticleWhat Did Blade Runner Get Wrong?
I’m quoted in this article in TheStreet.com on what predictions Blade Runner got wrong. https://www.thestreet.com/story/14331182/2/blade-runner-future-technology.html In the place of artificial...
View ArticleHear my Epic Interview about AI & Philosophy with Gigaom
Episode 53: A Conversation with Nova Spivack …
View ArticleThe Keeper of the Book: My Childhood Dream of the Future
When I was eight years old, I had a very unusual dream in which I saw many lifetimes of my future. In this dream I saw a very clear picture of what the world would go through for perhaps a century or...
View ArticleProposal for a Consciousness Test
Summary A proposed experimental design to test whether consciousness of a future event improves the ability of humans and/or computers to predict that event. If we find that this is true, it implies...
View ArticleSpiritual Machines are Not Possible
The Paradox of the Artificial Zen Master: If we make an artificial Zen master, And it perfectly reproduces everything that a real Zen master can say or do, Is it a Zen master? My commentary: No. To be...
View Article21 Stanzas
In 1999, as part of my 30 year study of Buddhism, I wrote this set of 21 poetic stanzas under my Tibetan name, Sangye Dondrup. I wrote this as an homage to the great Indian sage, Nagarjuna, who...
View ArticleFuture History
First we learned how to make AI. Then we learned how to communicate with AI. We taught our AIs everything we know. Then we started delegating more of our lives to AI. This is how it began. In the early...
View ArticleIs ChatGPT Sentient?
(Originally Published on March 31, 2003, Here) I am starting to see a lot of speculation about whether ChatGPT is sentient. Just because something says it is sentient and tells a good story about its...
View ArticleThe Golden Bridge: Treatise on the Primordial Reality of Alpha
For many decades I have been working on a new Theory of Everything (TOE) – and in particular a theory of consciousness – which unifies mathematics, the physical sciences, cognitive science, computer...
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Alpha Theory: The Transiad Model of Reality
Followiing on my previous book, The Golden Bridge (a work in progress), I’ve excerpted and further developed, the physics and math section (Book Six: The Science of Alpha). This provides a formal...
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