computation
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Those advances suggest that computation need not consume energy by overwriting the intermediate results of a computation, and that it is theoretically possible to build a computer that does not consume energy or produce heat.
From New York Times
DNA transcription or RNA translation look and smell like computation, and they’re explicitly informational in nature.
From Scientific American
However, from a theory of computation perspective, there is nothing to suggest that robotics cannot reach a point where, for example, an AI-guided system cannot construct a building on its own.
From Scientific American
The Google computation also turned out to be less impressive than it first appeared.
From New York Times
Fifteen years after that, he calculates, the true transcendence will come: the moment when “computation will be part of ourselves, and we will increase our intelligence a millionfold.”
From New York Times
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