Application of the Oak Ridge Super Computer to Streamline Document Access at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant.

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2. I have understood that Roger Penrose offered a coda to "The Emperor's New Mind," in light of the artificial...

..."intelligence" term.

I will never get around to reading it; for me Penrose is a hard slog anyway.

I did recently attend a lecture by David Krakauer recently, this one:

The Natural History of Reality: An Introduction to Complexity Science

He claimed that the word "intelligence" in "artificial intelligence" is, well, artificial.

I'm sure though that it is possible to produce an algorithm that can be trained to address paths through bureaucracy.

As a political liberal, I believe in regulation, but it does seem to me that the nuclear industry is over regulated, particularly because it is clearly producing the cleanest and safest possible energy there is. It seems unwieldy and unwise that we require the expenditure of 15,000 human hours per year to keep a clean machine running. It would be better to regulate systems that actually kill people, like fossil fuel facilities for instance.