Artificial Intelligence
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- sarahfailin1
http://www.theatlantic.com/magaz…
“It depends on what you mean by artificial intelligence.” Douglas Hofstadter is in a grocery store in Bloomington, Indiana, picking out salad ingredients. “If somebody meant by artificial intelligence the attempt to understand the mind, or to create something human-like, they might say—maybe they wouldn’t go this far—but they might say this is some of the only good work that’s ever been done.”
Hofstadter says this with an easy deliberateness, and he says it that way because for him, it is an uncontroversial conviction that the most-exciting projects in modern artificial intelligence, the stuff the public maybe sees as stepping stones on the way to science fiction—like Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, or Siri, Apple’s iPhone assistant—in fact have very little to do with intelligence. For the past 30 years, most of them spent in an old house just northwest of the Indiana University campus, he and his graduate students have been picking up the slack: trying to figure out how our thinking works, by writing computer programs that think. ///
I'm reading Godel, Escher, Bach right now and it's really amazing in that it strikes at what consciousness really means. Without understanding what thinking and consciousness are, we will not likely develop true sentience in machines. ...unless perhaps by accident. As this article suggests, more modern approaches to AI use huge amounts of data-- basically the recorded thinking of other people-- to make machines seem to be able to think themselves by following the data.
- yurimon-1
- reanimate1
Artificial intelligence social network offers 'digital immortality' through virtual counterpart
- prophetone2
- That was a such a great scene.Sep
- i watched this for the first time the other day! great film, soundtrack is also brilliantcruddlebub
- movie?BannedKappa
- Ex-Machinaprophetone
- BrokenHD1
This was insightful for me.
Defining The Singularity » http://futurism.com/defining-sin…
- yurimon-1
soon, if sleeple.
- pablo280
eterni.me
- ukit20
Bill Gates Worries About Machines Gaining Super Intelligence
- prophetone0
Now is the time people to allow our apps to 'literally' control our daily interactions with the other humans in your life! Or not. You decide.
"Created by Lauren McCarthy and Kyle McDonald, pplkpr is an app that tracks, analyzes, and auto-manages your relationships. Using a smartwatch, pplkpr monitors your physical and emotional response to the people around you, and optimizes your social life accordingly."
http://www.creativeapplications.…
The future of human-kind possibly, but hopefully not, represented in the following video presentation:
- to ponder... will the app be held responsible for failed relationships?prophetone
- ...will there be people out there who will get their hands on this and follow every command it deduces?prophetone
- ...sort of like how people put too much trust in their car's nav'y system and wind up in a lake at some point?prophetone
- yes.prophetone
- and no.prophetone
- to the future!prophetone
- How many wrist sizes should this fit? Oh I don't know, ALL OF THEM!!IRNlun6
- logical progression,georgesIII
- This might be very useful for the autistic peeps. A friend of mine's autistic son comes home every day with a questions about his interactions with people...Gnash
- ... did he handle them well, should he have done something different.Gnash
- interesting conceptutopian
- PonyBoy0
just cuz I've always loved that scene^
- <3D4W33D
- Rutger wrote the dialog in this scenedrgs
- ^ did he really? I did not know that.Gnash
- kind of, it was roughly the same but he changed it a bit...shortened it more than anything_niko
- yeah, he said it in some interview much later that he was improvising on an idea.renderedred
- uan0
some insight on actual status:
- uan0
tools based on statistical models look like intelligence to us...
...i.e. the Quick Selection Tool in PS, or Google Now
the more data they can compute, they better they perform.