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Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by pixl97 on Friday December 16, 2016 @08:59AM (#13193234)
>when people we convinced that machines could bootstrap themselves into contraptions that could move mountains.

With our modern construction equipment, we do move mountains.

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Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by YeGoblynQueenne on Friday December 16, 2016 @10:18AM (#13193798)
>> With our modern construction equipment, we do move mountains.

We do- using machines; not machines themselves.

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Re:The Great A.I. Awakening by pixl97 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @02:51PM (#13202140)
Eh, depends what you mean by that exactly.

Many of these machines can be programmed to follow a primary human driven machine and replicate the task. Other machines are piloted by a human, but the human does far less work someone that used 'manual hydraulic' equipment of many generations ago. You can 'program' a few sets of moves in them and then only slightly adjust the equipment on each pass as the equipment does that work.

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