Re: Sony to quit manufacturing AIBO, QRIO


risujin@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Traveler wrote:
> > It is ironic to think that those of us who are convinced that
> > they will never be replaced by a mchine will be the first to join the
> > unemployment line when true AI arrives. The reason is an economic one.
> > The highest paid workers will be targeted first: doctors, lawyers,
> > scientists, engineers, etc... ahahaha... Interesting times are coming.
>
> There is a lot of knowledge about the world that is programmed
> genetically into every animal. I'm not just talking about any hardcoded
> information that may be present within a brain from birth but also
> about the overall design of the body, all of which we take for granted
> as it does not differentiate us from each other.
>
> Think about your hand, just about everybody has two and they are
> ideally suited for grasping and feeling objects within the world. What
> you never think about is just how difficult it is to engineer such a
> device. Not everything produced from billions of years of evolution can
> be recreated with a few months of engineering.
>
>


The genetic design is much more profound, I think, than most people
especially
behaviorists ever realize. I have had some trouble with a family of 4
raccoons
living under the shack this winter. These suckers have been a ton of
trouble.
And part of this is because they have such highly developed and
articulate
hands [much more than just a foot] that they can do an extreme amount
of
damage. Those hands are imminently designed for making trouble. There
are places were they just pull and tear for hours to make openings. And

it appears the brains are commensurate to the foot.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4892/raccoonskeleton.html

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