<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">John Clark - the things they are good at is a testament to the genius of the computer's teachers not of the computer itself</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">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)</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:large">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Tomaz Kristan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:protokol2020@gmail.com" target="_blank">protokol2020@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:32 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Back in 1997 when a computer beat the world Chess champion </font><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Piet Hut, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton said "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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 </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">George Johnson said "</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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</span> "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.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div>
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