Re:Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
by rohanprabhu on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:25AM
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Not OP, but I think they are referring to the basic premise of evolution. We still don't have a concrete theory on what causes mutation to occur, only one about which mutations end up surviving and sustaining across generations.
As such the evolution of human intelligence is largely an enormous chain of favorable mutations having been coupled and survived over billions of years. And each mutation that did occur was owing to nothing more than chance.
Re:Artificial Intelligence Still Isn’t All That Smart
by leg100 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:46PM
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Since, as you say, we don't have a concrete theory on what causes mutations to occur, how can you then go onto say the reason they occur is nothing more than chance?
As such the evolution of human intelligence is largely an enormous chain of favorable mutations having been coupled and survived over billions of years. And each mutation that did occur was owing to nothing more than chance.