Research reveals why AI systems can't become conscious—and what radically different computing substrates would be needed to ...

In this paper we prove the following theorem: let G be a discrete amenable group with nontrivial almost-periodic compactification, and let F be a complex-valued function defined in [-1, 1]; then F ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...

Split a mile in half, you get half a mile. Split the half mile, you get a quarter, and on and on, until you’ve carved out a length far smaller than the diameter of an atom. Can this slicing continue ...