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Re:What We Get Wrong About Technology by naasking on Thursday August 31, 2017 @03:09PM (#15142911)
> But I'm sure that if one were to define "understanding" with regard to humans, then what the AI does would be far from it.

We have a bad habit of over-estimating our abilities, so I wouldn't bet too much money on that proposition.

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Re:What We Get Wrong About Technology by dEnigma on Thursday August 31, 2017 @06:15PM (#15144416)
Sure, but I'm not saying that human "understanding" is "better", only different from current AI. But who knows, I could be wrong and at a certain layer of abstraction they might be quite similar.
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