On 5/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</b> <<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ye, poetry writing, music writing and painting AI programs have all<br>been developed. Some of them are on occasion surprisingly good. Do<br>you mean did they spontaneously do these things? Do human beings<br>spontaneously do them or are they "programmed" if you will with such
<br>general powerful algorithms and voluminous training experiences and<br>information that such things are possible results?<br></blockquote></div><br>Neither; we are specifically programmed to indulge in this sort of activity, because in the ancestral environment it boosted our status, improved our chances of finding an attractive mate. The possession of powerful algorithms for things like vision and language is a necessary precondition, of course, but not sufficient.
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