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"What is AI? Whatever a computer can't do". One implication seems to be that the human brain is itself not a computer.
by gravitycop 18y ago
"What is AI? Whatever a computer can't do".
One implication seems to be that the human brain is itself not a computer.
- unalone 18y agoIt's not, in the sense that you're talking about. We don't operate through a vast system of yesses and nos. We're not just a huge binary cloud, in other words. And nobody's entirely certain just how we work. Comparing us to computers is really ignoring most of the limitations of computers, and invites far to simplistic - and inaccurate - a comparison.
- gravitycop 18y ago[The human brain is not a computer] in the sense that you're talking about. Is the human brain a machine? 71 hits for: http://blogsearch.google.com?q=%22brain+is+a+machine%22 http://blogsearch.google.com?q=%22brain+is+a+machine%22 8,400 hits for: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22brain+is+a+machine%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22brain+is+a+machine%22
- unalone 18y agoOn the same note, 68 results for "government caused 9/11". People blogging doesn't make something a reality.
- gravitycop 18y agoblogging doesn't make something a reality. That implication was not intended. The search links were intended as food for thought.
- unalone 18y agoAh! Gotcha. I think that "human as machine" has some interesting implications, but I think that by the time we make machines as complex and sophisticated as ourselves, they won't be machines any longer. If I see a machine that's organic and that has a superpowerful mind, I won't think it's a machine anymore.
- gravitycop 18y agoI think that by the time we make machines as complex and sophisticated as ourselves Making of wetware was not intended to be implied. If I see a machine that's organic One of these?: http://images.google.com/images?q=flower http://images.google.com/images?q=flower Was that a Yes or a No?