I would like to talk about memory , the act of encoding,saving and remembering in a mostly nuts and bolts kind of way, specifically how machines do it, how humans seem to do it and why it matters for A.I. and the future of the human species.
Preface:
Both humans and machines commit trillions of memory acts on any given day, in essence recreating bits and pieces of the past or perhaps dragging them along the time side of the time space fabric ( I like to think it has a luxurious velvety feel ), within those acts or close nearby lies our identity, our hopes, dreams ,credit card numbers, emails, selfies, bits, bytes and deep down there somewhere commingled with some other stuff I believe lies the secret to human consciousness and perhaps that of machines…
A prototypical act of Memory consists of quite a few things if you think about it, there has to be some event or thing to be remembered, real,imagined or even virtual( a percept ) , a mechanism to capture such thing or event ( an encoder ), another one to preserve it through time (a persister ?), and finally another one for recreating the percept or thing at a future date by recalling or remembering it, and of course someone or…
