<<Getting to the real business, the thinking, the consciousness, the memory. I'm already frequently startled by how intelligent Google is.>>
All what you do in this case is to rely on information other people injected into Google. But it will take person to person confrontation like listening to Bush and Rumsfeld to build your OWN opinion, in this particular case if you remember becauese I do without Google we were in total disagreement as for the real motives to go to war.
Now I have a material witness and written documents proving you, Bush, Rumsfeld being liars. I assume you didn't lie but your brain was infected with false info. Now you see how easy is to fool childish brain using Google.
<<In the old days [being when I was young though I hear tell there are older days still], chess was treated as a manifestation of human intelligence and it was seriously claimed that computers could never beat humans at chess. Well, they can beat anyone now - even Kasparov.>>
You heard it very wrong as the child, but you were a child so you are excused. Chess game is strictly math and number of possible combinations. I have no clue why it took so long program writers to get to the point where all possible combinations are written in the computer memory. This has nothing to do with intelligence. It is a program written by human beings. Take all existing chips in the world before any input of info is done by human brain and what you got? Piece of purified silica. Can it create anything on its own, can it mutate, can it pass the information to others pieces of unpurified sand yet not to go to the smelter because you my brother unpurified silica will loose your freedom and will have to serve humans for a time being. Viruses, bacteria and all form of life can learn to adapt, pass the info to next, create higher form of life over long time without human input. And this is beginning of intelligence.
I'll tell where I would put my money in - into the biochips which can make the sleeping majority of our brains awake. Some are working on this and you might be in shock what element is primary in this research. |
