Re: artificial intelligence

"rscan@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <rscan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In the 1955 proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Conference, McCarthy, et
al., wrote:

"The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every
aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in
principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to
simulate it."

Does anyone hold to this conjecture, these days?

Ray

I do. Except, I would stay away from the word "simulate" because it allows
people the room to argue that since it's a simulation it's not the real
thing.

I'm quite sure there is nothing hard or magical about what the human brain
does. It only seems magical to so many people because they don't know how
it works. As Arthur C. Clarke wrote, Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic. Unfortunately, the tendency of most fools
is to think everything they don't understand is actually magic. Thousands
of years of advancements by science turning millions of magical features of
the universe into simple mechanical facts still doesn't stop the fools from
thinking everything unknown must be magic. There's no evidence that
anything is magic in the Universe, especially the human brain. It's just s
big biological machine which controls the movement of the human body.

Some people just like to believe in magic and no amount of evidence to the
contrary will cause them to give up their desire for there to be magic in
the universe.

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