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I guess if you thought that all a computer could do was remind people of facts then it would make sense to be skeptical, but I'm not sure how you've concluded t
by joebob42 5y ago
I guess if you thought that all a computer could do was remind people of facts then it would make sense to be skeptical, but I'm not sure how you've concluded that.
At a minimum, a computer can play many games better than a human, automatically sort vast troves of information and serve results from queries, kind-of-drive a car, detect images which contain cancer, etc.
- jrm4 5y agoI guess you could (or I could) divide A.I. into roughly two categories, "cool thing that uses things like Machine Learning" and then "appears to be sentient/likely to be more intelligent than humans" etc. I'm old enough to have seen the goalposts on the first one move all the time, and that's not what I'm referring to, I'm more referring to the latter.