On 13 June 2014 20:44, Pierz <pier...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes. But I have to wonder what we're doing wrong, because any > sophisticated piece of modern software such as a modern OS or even this > humble mailing list/forum software we are using is already "hugely > mind-bogglingly incremental". It has evolved over decades of incremental > improvement involving thousands upon thousands of workers building up > layers of increasing abstraction from the unfriendly silicon goings-on down > below. And yet Siri, far from being a virtual Scarlett Johannson, is still > pretty much dumb as dog-shit (though she has some neat bits of crystallised > intelligence built in. Inspired by "She" I asked her what she was wearing, > and she said, "I can't tell you but it doesn't come off."). Well, I'm still > agnostic on "comp", so I don't have to decide whether this conspicuous > failure represents evidence against computationalism. I do however consider > the bullish predictions of the likes of Deutsch (and even our own dear > Bruno) that we shall be uploading our brains or something by the end of the > century or sooner to be deluded. Deutsch wrote once (BoI?) that the > computational power required for human intelligence is already present in a > modern laptop; we just haven't had the programming breakthrough yet. I > think that is preposterous and can hardly credit he actually believes it. > > This looks like a more realistic estimate...
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