Parallel Optical Information, Concept, and Response Evolver: POINCARE

摘要

We believe it is now possible to build a nonlinear adaptive system which will incorporate many of the properties of the human mind such as true originality in such skills as reasoning by analogy and reasoning by retrodiction including literally unpredictable thoughts, and development of individual styles, personalities, expertise, etc. Like humans, these optical processors will have a rich "subconscious" experience. Like humans, they will be clonable, but clones will develop differently as they experience the world differently, make different decisions, develop different habits, etc. In short, we can begin to make powerful optical processors with some of the properties normally associated with human intelligence. This approach can result in a powerful optical processor with those properties. I will suggest a demonstration chosen for simplicity of implementation. This could be the first computer of any type which uses quantum indeterminacy in an integral and important way.