[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

[Tomaz Kristan]

Even this stupidity they show, could be emulated on a digital computer, one
day. And they perhaps somehow know that. We need intelligence, however. Not
the silliness they demonstrate so faithfully.

We are probably less then a decade away from something quite spectacular in
this field. I am not saying that what we are seeing now isn't spectacular -
it is! I'm thinking about something even much, much more spectacular. Those
clowns will have nothing else to say then. That alone will be priceless.


On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> ​Back in 1997 when a computer beat the world Chess champion ​Piet Hut, an
> astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton said "It
> may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even
> longer. If a reasonably intelligent person learned to play Go, in a few
> months he could beat all existing computer programs. You don’t have to be a
> Kasparov”. About the same time science writer George Johnson said "Defeating
> a human Go champion will be a sign that artificial intelligence is truly
> beginning to become as good as the real thing.”  But in today's new York
> Times Johnson says "That doesn’t seem so true anymore", and then in a
> orgie of sour grapes goes on to list the things that computers still aren't
> good at and to claim that the things they are good at is a testament to the
> genius of the computer's teachers not of the computer itself, so it's not
> really a big deal. It just shows what I've been saying, the goal post is
> always moving and true intelligence is whatever a computer isn't good at,
> YET.
>
>  John K Clark
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