Re:Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happe...
by smtddr on Saturday May 03, 2014 @07:34AM
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>>No one is talking about magic. The human brain is not magic, neither is that of chimpanzees, rats, dolphins or gorillas. Intelligence is a purely physical phenomenon, which means it can be emulated by computers.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
The brain might as well be magic, I don't think we have enough understanding of it to know if it's truly possible to make a computer think & learn _exactly_ like a human.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws
The brain might as well be magic, I don't think we have enough understanding of it to know if it's truly possible to make a computer think & learn _exactly_ like a human.
Also, I can't help but be reminded of the TNG episode related to this topic. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Measure_Of_A_Man_(episod...