Enjoying the view from Limbo
Artificial intelligence will never be human. It will never have the best characteristics of humans. Neither will it ever have the worst characteristics of humans. What it will be, and all it will be capable of becoming, is an emulation, an imitation, a digital simulation, of the best and worst characteristics of humans. However, as it can only be simulating those elements of...
Donald Trump, as part of his crusade to keep the stock market’s tech bubble alive, obviously for the sake of his and his family’s material profit, is not only rejecting all pleas for regulation of the development of artificial intelligence, but is even proposing to boost its idiot-friendliness by changing its name to something even more false than the current one. Specifically, he...
Can machines think? Well, as everyone says, machines can do what their creators can do, only faster and better. But their creators are humans, and humans of a purely practical, materialist orientation — doohickey specialists and thingamajig experts. Such humans do not and cannot, in the strictest sense, think. Zero times a million equals zero. Therefore, machines cannot think. Calculate, yes. Compile and...
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