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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by TeMPOraL on Thursday November 14, 2019 @03:34AM (#21533795)
> [1]: To those saying that insects or rodents can't play Go or chess -- they can't sort numbers, either, and even early computers did it better than humans.

They probably can, internally; they just can't operate on tokens we recognize as numbers explicitly. For a computer analogy, take Windows Notepad - there's probably plenty of sorting, computing square roots and linear interpolation being done under the hood in the GUI rendering code - but none of that is exposed in the interface you use to observe and communicate with the application.

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Re:John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general int... by pron on Thursday November 14, 2019 @08:15AM (#21535103)
Computers still do that much better -- there's no way an insect, or a mammal, brain internally sorts ten million numbers -- and even much better (at least faster) than humans. My point is only that the fact computers can do some tasks better than insects or humans is irrelevant, in itself, to the question of intelligence.
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