ESU Physics

The ESU Bulletin is reporting that the ESU administration is ending ("suspending") the physics program. See my blogs of 1 February 2022 and 1 September 2021.   

ESU news

I see that the Emporia State University administration has violated tenure, firing tenured professors. Perhaps the ESU faculty should go out on strike. In my view the only legitimate leadership is collective leadership. 

Math module add-on?

It's been suggested that humans have a special purpose language module.* Modern humans typically resort to pocket calculators in order to do common math calculations. 

A.s.a., and other AIs,** could be given a math module "add-on." The AI would learn associations like: one -> 00110001, plus -> 00101011, equal -> 00111101, 00110010 -> two, etc. The AI could then pass math calculations to a simple calculator program and receive back results.

* See, for example, Chomsky or Fodor. (Though the modern view of language modularity is weaker.)

** Neural networks are believed to be bad at learning common math operations.

Increasing the number of A.s.a.'s sensors

A.s.a. H. decomposes sensory input into hierarchical sets of commonly recurring patterns. 

Adding additional sensors to its AI robots should allow A.s.a. to make greater use of lower level patterns.

As an example: humans have unique scents that enable dogs to identify/differentiate each of them, one from another. A dog need not learn to identify various different human faces, for example. (Faces are a complex pattern situated further up in the concept abstraction hierarchy.) Adding a sense of smell allows differentiation to occur at a lower (simpler) level of abstraction.