Or, in the words of Forest Gump, "Stupid is as stupid does". What we call "intelligence" aint all it is cracked up to be. Take it from someone who has given thousands of IQ and IQ-like tests in research and clinical practice. How intelligent is the blind use of algorithms to do mental arithmetic; or doing memory tests like repeating back series of numbers? So why not let machines do all these dumb things we call intelligence? We can then become playful otters frolicking on the beaches of BC whose provincial anthem will be "Iiiiiiii don' wanna work. I jus wanna bang on de drum all day". How many years until "The End of Work" (Rifkin)?
FWP <http://www.geocities.com/machine_psychology/The_Ghost_In_The_Machine> On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As the saying goes, the smarter the machine the dumber need be the operator. > > With machine intelligence there will be little need for operators to know > anything but punching in the codes--this goes for computerized machine tools > or smart microwaves or smart cars. > > arthur > > -----Original Message----- > From: pete [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 1:10 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Futurework] Future Teaching > > > > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Eventually machine intelligence will replace human intelligence > >throughout the economy. Wonder if the final outcome will be "good" or > >"bad" Productivity will have increased but human interaction (at least in > >these traditional areas such as education and probably health care) will > >have decreased. > > > >arthur > > I guess this is a good place to relate an experience I had today. > I'm currently at CERN, helping to install some pieces of hardware > we've cobbled up into the next great accelerator - big science > at its most impressive. Anyway, we had this huge piece of hardware > held up on supports in the middle of a large workroom, when a > couple of girls came in, one with a camera, and one with a laptop > under her arm. I thought, perhaps the CERN Courier is going to do > another little article on the progress of our project. But instead, > these two take out a bunch of little black squares about the size of > postit notes, and start climbing up and sticking them all over the > construction. I'm not sure if they were adhesive, or like fridge magnets, > or both. Each square has a one cm white spot in the centre, but each > has a differently segmented white circle around the central dot, at > about 3cm diameter. Then they take out a pair of telescoping > rods and extend them to about a metre and a half, and clip them > to our construction, one horizontally, the other vertically. Each > rod also has one of the black patches with white coding, mounted > at each end. Then one sets up the laptop, while the other starts > taking pictures, walking around the device. While the picture taking > is still proceeding, the one with the laptop says, "Would you like to > see?" and shows a diagram already appearing on the laptop screen. > You see, these girls are the survey team, and they are generating > a full 3D map of the device. The camera has a wireless connection > to the laptop and is uploading images. The laptop identifies the > little targets in the photos and does a brutal quantity of computation > in real time among the photographs to deduce the position of the > targets based solely on the multiple images and the two reference > rods. As the surveyor operating the laptop explained to me (she is > now a CERN employee, but used to work with the company which developed > the technology) by taking a sufficient number of photographs, with > a sufficient number of targets (I'm guessing they used a binary > multiple, 32 or 64) it is not even necessary to have a pre-calibrated > distortion free lens on the camera. The software can deduce and > correct for any aberration in the lens as part of the overall > calculation. The accuracy of the process is somewhat limited by the > image quality of the digital camera, though it does much better than > simple resolution of the camera image - for our gadget, about > 6x6x3 metres, they get down to about 1/2 mm. So much for theodolites, > and a day's computations, to generate a survey. > > Well, that's my whizzbang techno story for today... > > -Pete > > -----Original Message----- > From: Franklin Wayne Poley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 8:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Futurework] Future Teaching > > > Have a look at the robotic teacher I'd like to hire from King's > College, London: > > <http://www.geocities.com/machine_psychology/IMP_Cover_Page> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 17:35:46 -0800 (PST) > From: Franklin Wayne Poley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [IMP] Final Lesson 36 > > There are typically 36 hours of class time for a one semester, 3-credit > course. Lessons 31-35 are more in the nature of an assignment: draft out a > set of menus and prompts for the SEE-to-C program or even go further and > turn that into C code if you are so inclined. How much of my notes on > SEE-to-C I will post eventually on the expert system program for C code > writing, I do not know. If I am correct about this (and you can find out > by trying to write SEE-to-C for yourself) then future students can forget > about texts like Aitken and Jones ("Teach Yourself C in 21 Days") or a > course like COMP 2425 at BCIT which takes about 144 hours. Gary Livick's > C-programmed robot, Etcetera, will be able to teach C in one hour. > > Final lesson 36 is titled "Godbot" and it is designed to stimulate some > creative and metaphysical thinking. If anyone has SPECIFIC criticisms I > will welcome them. I certainly don't want to cap off a course which I have > spent so much time developing, with any errors. > > <http://www.geocities.com/machine_psychology/The_Ghost_In_The_Machine> > > FWP > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> > Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark > Printer at MyInks.com. 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