Hello everyone, I think that humans will always be disctinct from A.I. because humans have the capacity to wonder. A computer (to my knowledge) is programmed with right/wrong functions at its most basic level (although some may be programmed based on probably right/probably wrong). No matter how "intelligent" a computer can become, can it question its own programming (and therefore its existence)? Also, aren't computers based on cause and effect relationships? If there are aspects of the world undefined by cause and effect-which is incomprehensible to humans- could a computer ever comprehend them? I apologize for my inexperience with A.I.; I am simply a curious high school student. :) Chris Anderson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 20 May 2007 3:58 PM Subject: [singularity] Will AGI make us stupid? I used to like to solve Sudoku puzzles, and thought about the mental process I used to solve them. Then I decided it would be a bigger challenge to put that process into code, and wrote http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/sudoku/sudoku.html I thought it was cool that I could write a program that was smarter than me, at least in some narrow domain. But the unexpected result was that I lost interest in solving the puzzles. Why should I do it the hard way? And what fun is it to do it the easy way?
When a computer beat the world champion at chess, the game lost the significance it once had. You know who Kasparov is. Who is the champion today? When calculators became available, teaching students to do arithmetic by hand seemed less important. Likewise for handwriting and keyboards. We now use computers to remember details of our lives like phone numbers and email addresses, to get driving directions, to decide which email we want to read, to do ever more of our work. When machines can do all of our thinking for us, what will happen to us? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
