Re: artificial intelligence


"Curt Welch" <curt@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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.

And neither do you! For example, you ignore the 50,000 or so chemical
reactions occurring in EACH neuron EACH second, thinking that one and only
one artifact (a groos one at that - the APs) seen as a result of neuron
processing is the sine qua non of signal/intelligence processing in brain.

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.

No, it is that we recognize as follish, anyone, (like you), who pronounce
thay have THE answer - just like the religious nuts who claim that know the
one God!

Thousands
of years of advancements by science turning millions of magical features
of
the universe into simple mechanical

You don;t know what mechanical even means in this context!!

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.

Ohh - that's all it does! Well, then trough out all the thoughts that
happen without (or that are not concerned with) controlling 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.

You desire simplicity so that you can deal with it. Unfortunately for you,
you will have to deal with extreme complexity or remain foolish.



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