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Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why? by matt4077 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:35PM (#13347731)
> My only problem with it is that it doesn't understand the meaning of the words it's translating.

I think that's a fallacy that will haunt AI forever (or, more likely, will be the definitive civil rights struggle ca. March 25, 2035 6:25:45am to March 25, 2035 6:25:48am)

We tend to move the goalpost whenever AI makes advances. Where many people would have considered chess a pretty good measure of at least some aspect of intelligence, it seems like mundane number crunching once you know how it works.

It may be that we really mean consciousness when we say "intelligence", although if we ever find an easy formulation that creates a perfect "illusion" of consciousness, it may end up having some strong effects on people's conception of themselves that I don't necessarily want to witness.

Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why? by williamtrask on Sunday January 08, 2017 @08:42AM (#13349652)
thanks for sharing this... stirring thoughts. Did my best to paraphrase here (https://twitter.com/iamtrask/status/818090203990659072) but I really think we should spend more time on this as a society.