Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (10023)	3/29/2001 2:43:47 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I'm afraid Artificial Intelligence is like Nuclear Fusion. NF is always 25 years away, and AI is always 15 years away. Too bad, really. I like smart machines, but I'm not sure I want emotional machines which may be an important element of our understanding of "intelligence". I think it is more likely that the intelligence is already here in the networks of computers we are building, but it is unlikely we would ever recognize it (until it is too late!). I have enough problems with emotional humans (had one illogical creature leave the room in tears a couple of days ago). I felt really bad because that wasn't my intent. I wanted an administrative policy to be logical. It wasn't. This resulted in a "core meltdown". Karen and I have gone around on this. Sometimes (more often than not, it might appear), the reason for things done by regulators (this happened to be an internal regulator) is "we've always done it that way." That's not much of a reason. Hell, I had a Collie who would always circle 3 times before sitting. Some people theorize the dogs are "looking for snakes". I think that gives them too much credit. The Collie was standing on a rug in the kitchen, after all. [Edit: I'm afraid I'm really not behind this statement. From the article: The controversy surrounding this issue won't be entered into here; it will simply be assumed, throughout this paper, that quantum phenomena are not functionally relevant to high-level brain modelling.]