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Algorithms cannot be illogical. They just can't.

• coldtea 8y ago
  Actually they very much can. They just can. Except if you believe in some kind of soul / body duality. Else human-like thinking is something that can be achieved with the right (and properly complex) computing program, including consciousness. And that would include anything logical or illogical that we're capable of. In other words, if you do believe that humans can be illogical, then who told you the human thinking doesn't come from an algorithm itself (of e.g. NN nature)? Not that this is not needed, of course, because what I wrote is much easier to achieve. I wrote that "Algorithms can blindly follow through into an obviously illogical decision". That doesn't even need the algorithm to be illogical itself, but just to arrive at an illogical (obviously for us, humans) decision. It can still arrive at that logically. E.g. if I program a simple algorithm that "if the car sees a zebra crossing, go full steam ahead" the algorithm will do just that, whereas most humans would question it.