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Do you see his point if you substitute 'digital blob' for 'ones and zeros'? Sure we see 'blobs' also, but we see the 'meaning' of the granny just about inextric
by queensnake 18y ago
Do you see his point if you substitute 'digital blob' for 'ones and zeros'? Sure we see 'blobs' also, but we see the 'meaning' of the granny just about inextricably too; a computer won't.
- endtime 18y agoNo, substituting "digital blob" doesn't help at all. Have you ever heard of computer vision? I don't see any reason why a computer shouldn't be able to distinguish a tank from an old woman.
- queensnake 18y agoHow about, '/Things like/: old women, dogs, decoy tanks, captured tanks, someone cutting up a dead tank for scrap..'.
- jerf 18y agoThere may be a generation or two of robot that is deployable in some battlefield scenario in some autonomous capacity, but can not make that determination as well as a human. That will, however, be an anomaly that is rapidly corrected, followed immediately by it making the determination better than a human. (It should be pointed out that we are hardly perfect at recognition tasks. When discussing robot/computer vs. human capabilities, people often slip in the assumption that humans are perfect at the task in question, usually unconsciously. That is never true. Humans have error rates too.)