There Is No A.I

Re:There Is No A.I by ShamelessC on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:51PM (#35662192)

> the philosopher who first conceived the idea of virtual reality

What does that even mean?

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Re:There Is No A.I by harry8 on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:57PM (#35662226)

Descartes "evil demon" from 1641 says Wikipedia is the philosophical idea in all it's forms short of "but with a computer"

Anyone got anything earlier? Wouldn't surprise me.

https://iep.utm.edu/evil-new/

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Re:There Is No A.I by blazespin on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:09PM (#35662296)

pretty sure first person that had a dream figured out VR.

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Re:There Is No A.I by Yahivin on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:23PM (#35662387)

Or peyote.

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Re:There Is No A.I by harry8 on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:36PM (#35672230)

yeah maybe kinda? Lack of control of the dream there that makes a difference for mine. YMMV. Dunno when lucid dreaming was discovered.

Was there something written down about it by one of the ancient greeks or similar vintage?

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Re:There Is No A.I by earthboundkid on Friday April 21, 2023 @11:25PM (#35663083)

Descartes explicitly wrote about automatons and telling them apart from people using language and reasoning as sign posts (“the Turing test” three hundred years before Turing).

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