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Physicists, philosophers, professors, authors, cognitive scientists, and many others have weighed in on edge.org's annual question 2015: What do you think about machines that think? See all 186 responses here
Also, what do you think?
My 2ยข: There's been a lot of focus on potential disasters that are almost certainly not going to happen. E.g. a robot uprising, or mass poverty through unemployment. Most manufacturers of artificial intelligence won't program their machines to seek self preservation at the expense of their human masters. It wouldn't sell. Secondly, if robots can one day produce almost everything we need, including more robots, with almost no human labour required, then robot-powered factories will become like libraries: relatively cheap to maintain, plentiful, and a public one will be set up in every town or suburb, for public use. If you think the big corporations wouldn't allow it, why do they allow public libraries?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday January 24 2015, @10:25AM
No. No human brain is a better computer than the computers we build. Yes, they are better brains than our computers are, that is, they are much better at brain-typical tasks than computers are. But in turn they completely suck at computer-type tasks. Even a decades-old computer outperforms me at simple computing tasks. And there's no way that I'll ever remember enough to fill all the mass storage media I've got at home. On the other hand, my computer sucks at tasks that are simple for me. For example, there's no way my computer could write a comment like this one.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.