On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Sorry this is one of my many pet peeves. Everything hinges on what you mean > by "learn" and "act". Tell me this, what new thing has a computer learned > that no human knew before? And how did the computer act on that new > knowledge? I think AI is an illusion, produced by the old trick of bait and > switch. We talk in the abstract of "learning and acting" as though it was > like what humans do, and then when it gets to the actual point of proving it > we are told, "well, we don't mean THAT exactly."
One of my favorite quotes: "If the brain were simple enough for us to understand, we'd be too simple-minded to understand it." As someone who has 40+ years experience in dealing with how minds and brains work, I am firmly convinced that we will never *design* an artificial intelligence. I doubt that our brains are capable of grasping the level of complexity involved. It is just possible that we will be able to construct an artificial system that could *evolve* into something like an AI, but how this could be approached is not at all clear. Wow, this is waaaaay off topic. But interesting. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
