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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by gravitycop on Monday February 02, 2009 @06:05AM (#462139)
"What is AI? Whatever a computer can't do".

One implication seems to be that the human brain is itself not a computer.

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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by unalone on Monday February 02, 2009 @08:56AM (#462257)
It's not, in the sense that you're talking about. We don't operate through a vast system of yesses and nos. We're not just a huge binary cloud, in other words. And nobody's entirely certain just how we work.

Comparing us to computers is really ignoring most of the limitations of computers, and invites far to simplistic - and inaccurate - a comparison.

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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by gravitycop on Monday February 02, 2009 @09:18AM (#462277)
[The human brain is not a computer] in the sense that you're talking about.

Is the human brain a machine? 71 hits for: http://blogsearch.google.com?q=%22brain+is+a+machine%22

8,400 hits for: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22brain+is+a+machine%22

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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by unalone on Monday February 02, 2009 @10:21AM (#462360)
On the same note, 68 results for "government caused 9/11". People blogging doesn't make something a reality.
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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by gravitycop on Monday February 02, 2009 @10:34AM (#462379)
blogging doesn't make something a reality.

That implication was not intended. The search links were intended as food for thought.

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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by unalone on Monday February 02, 2009 @10:59AM (#462421)
Ah! Gotcha.

I think that "human as machine" has some interesting implications, but I think that by the time we make machines as complex and sophisticated as ourselves, they won't be machines any longer. If I see a machine that's organic and that has a superpowerful mind, I won't think it's a machine anymore.

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Re:Microsoft Songsmith a Youtube Hit Machine by gravitycop on Monday February 02, 2009 @11:09AM (#462438)
I think that by the time we make machines as complex and sophisticated as ourselves

Making of wetware was not intended to be implied.

If I see a machine that's organic

One of these?: http://images.google.com/images?q=flower Was that a Yes or a No?

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