"Smart" is a very subjective thing - true, the average chess program can beat me hands down, so they are "smarter" than I am, well, at chess anyway. Ask them to mop the floor though and I come out on top it seems every time.
Even now, computers are taking over aspects of our lives because they are better at certain tasks than we are, they drive our cars, type our letters, run our power grid etc, but to truly surpass mankind they would need to not only master data manipulation, but manipulation of the physical world, and of course master the illogical and theoretical worlds as well. I long for the day I don't have to work for a living, and can spend my time theorizing and teaching snowboarding. It's true, that eventually we may build, or indirectly cause to be built a machine which doesn't "need us" in their world anymore, but just because it has no direct use for mankind, doesn't make mankind generally useless - we'll I guess just carry on doing our own thing, much like most "lesser" forms of life already do ;-) On Nov 12, 9:19 pm, "Ali, Saqib" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dr. Geer, > > > suggested, it is not far from "here" to where the > > computers are smarter than us. > > I think we we are very far from the point where computers are smarter > than us. For. e.g. computer can not, as of yet, come up with a Random > number without seeding - a function that human brain can perform with > ease. > > > Those who believe > > that evolution is an inevitable Law of Nature might > > want to argue why if something is smarter than us > > it doesn't inevitably come to be the ruling class. > > "We" are already too puny to do science without > > the help of machines, > > This was always the case. Even the Egyptians used primitive machines > to build those pyramids. They used the machines to do tasks they were > not capable of. > > And if computers do become smarter then us, and what would be use of > human mind in their world? Maybe they will keep few human minds to > generate random numbers? > > Thanks > Saqib Ali > _______________________________________________ > FDE mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED]://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
