All the puzzlers in the previously announced topic - "Mary's Room, the Chinese Room, Zombies, Bats, and Qualia" are already scheduled to be discussed by Bob Blum in his talk on 2/28/10 . My apologies for the confusion.

Note that the time for the meetup on 2/14 is noon, as with almost all AI meetups.

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Instead we will debate the topic "Logic-based Infallible Godlike AI".

We'll debate what a logic based AI might be like. Things like how it would behave, what strengths and weaknesses it might have, and whether it could be outsmarted by lesser intelligences such as ourselves. We will also discuss whether these kinds of Intelligences are possible in the first place.

This will be informal. We will be lazy and only define our terms as needed, whenever someone asks for a definition. We'll describe a few different kinds of possible AIs and bracket a few levels of Infallibility. One important question is whether we believe these AIs will have control of nanoTechnology (nT) level devices. We'll discuss both possibilities. Another important issue is whether we think there will be one or many such AIs on our planet.

We'll start with simple and reasonably probable near-future AI systems and work our way up. I'd like to see a "Plausibility Path" for every kind/level of AI we decide to discuss: No miraculous steps in a path from where we are today. I realize this is very difficult but we're not doing this rigorously; this is for entertainment purposes (our own).

Full disclosure: I believe Logic-based Infallible Godlike AIs are impossible and/or useless; I have discussed this in an AI MeetUp. You can watch the video "Bizarre Systems" at http://videos.syntien... if you missed it and would like to catch up.

If this gets boring we'll discuss something else.