The Children of Babel: All of Human Knowledge and Experience Hiding in a Single Number
(Room JW Grand Ballroom 3/4)
05 Jul 18
9:00 PM
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10:15 PM
Jorge Luis Borges conceived the Library of Babel, the library of all possible books, generated by a single back-of-the-napkin algorithm; his library can be extended to include the community of Babel, where all possible minds reside. And both live within the number pi. This presentation explores these fun and intriguing concepts, exploring how knowledge and sentience operate, with implications for the longterm potential of artificial intelligence.