On Feb 12, 2:22 pm, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 11, 8:04 pm, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2012/2/11 Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> > > > > All computers are as dumb as anything could be. Any computer will run > > > the same loop over and over forever if you program them to do that. > > > It's not because you can program's them to being slavingly dumb to do a > > thing *that's the only thing they can do*, that's a "program" mean. > > That's what being dumb is - not being able to figure out how to do > anything else than what you already do.
Then no AI is fully dumb, since all are adaptive to some extent. > Intelligence is the ability to > make sense of any given context "Any"? Then no human is fully intelligent. > and to potentially transcend it, which > is why it can't be programmed or simulated (but it can be imitated > trivially for specific functions). If it weren't that way we would not > be having this discussion. That we are having this discussion does not prove we are infinitely adaptable, as your definition "intelligent" requires. >Machines would exhibit creativity and > versatility and would be widely considered identical to animal and > human life. > > Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
