Posted on 12/07/2014 7:26:54 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It's a Saturday morning in June at the Royal Society in London. Computer scientists, public figures and reporters have gathered to witness or take part in a decades-old challenge. Some of the participants are flesh and blood; others are silicon and binary. Thirty human judges sit down at computer terminals, and begin chatting. The goal? To determine whether they're talking to a computer program or a real person.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
MIT Spinoff Funded $143M to Create Sentient Computers
WWTIMES link (Video):
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EETIMES link (Video):
>Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
Intel just updated his platform ,, { before or after his comment?}
Elon Musk: 'We are summoning the demon' with artificial intelligence
More crapola!
You know those guys who though very bright, cannot drive or tie their own shoelaces? Now they are staring down the barrel of the gun they are building, marveling at its beauty.
Not frightening. Intelligence is well beyond the capabilities of any computers existing today and probably for the next couple of hundred years at least.
We can mimic intelligence but true intelligence needs sensory input, desire, intuition, fear, love, hate, etc.
Have you read the BBC’s article The Man With Two Hearts?
But my fancy Microsoft keyboard is hellish to type on....
I don’t see anything there indicating artificial intelligence any more than phantom sensation from a missing limb.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141205-the-man-with-two-hearts
Video at link on post #2 has a comment on that.
What desire/pleasure/pain actually is is a major mystery but it seems like even plants and microbes experience it somehow, else why do they bother with what they do? One of the strongest desires in the universe is a negative electron seeking out a positive mate, so whatever desire is, electronic thinking machines probably already have some form of it.
Apparently decision making is far more complex than “0” and “1” would be the salient point.
I don’t understand what Hawking is worried about. After all, doesn’t he already believe that human beings are just flukes of some cosmic burp from a universe that just happens to exist? A universe that has no design or particular meaning? In essence, we just happen to exist because we just do?
So, if human beings are meaningless arrangements of molecules and something like Ai comes along, and humans, by survival of the fittest are replaced by the better, stronger, more intelligent - so what? Our existence was meaningless to begin with so no big loss.
Here is the test: type the Captcha letters you see in the window.
OK, here's the ultimate test ask a piece of silicon "Does this dress make my azz look fat???" and see what it says...
We will truly have a sentient computer when it blames its errors on another computer.
We will truly have a sentient computer when it blames its errors onFixed.another computerGeorge Bush.
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