[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

[William Flynn Wallace]

John Clark - the things they are good at is a testament to the genius of
the computer's teachers not of the computer itself

Huh?  I assume a computer is a blank slate, so whatever it can do is what
the 'teacher's' taught it (programmed it) to do.  Is there a difference
between a computer and its programming??  (ignoring hardware, of course)

bill w

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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