Mind Matters
Mind Matters
Discovery Institute Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence
The Chaitin Interview II: Defining Randomness
25 minutes Posted Mar 11, 2021 at 4:53 pm.
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In the 1960s, mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin published a landmark paper in the field of algorithmic information theory in the Journal of the ACM – and he was only a teenager. Listen in as Robert J. Marks explores that paper with Chaitin, covering Chaitin’s definition of randomness and his philosophical interest in algorithmic information theory. Show Notes
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