On 1/17/23 15:34, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: > On 1/17/23 12:10, Chris via cctalk wrote: >> >> It seems at this point that AI can only look shit up. > > Which is all Watson could do when it "beat" humans at Jeopardy. > >> I don't doubt that eventually these things will learn how to reason >> to whatever degree. > > Science still has no real idea how we think. Or how we learn. Or much > else about the actual functioning of the brain. Until they do how can > anyone think they can teach a computer, that real is as dumb as a rock My point in selecting the IBM 7080 autocoder was just this. There are almost no 7080 autocoder programs published on the web, but there are reference manuals (bitsavers). Is an AI smart enough to go the human route and *read the manual* and draw conclusions from it sufficient to write a 7080 autocoder program?
If not, the AI is just a fancy regurgitation machine. --Chuck
