[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 7 April 2016 at 00:06, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
>

It's a blank slate in the same way a human s a blank slate, doing only what
it is programmed to do by its wiring and the things it learns.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou
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