Stuff My Brain Says #72

"The Society of Mind" by Marvin Minsky (cofounder of the A.I. Lab, MIT)

The above was an interesting book. It dealt with how we think; how we develop the thinking process as part of our early development (from an infant). When I was done, all I could think about was that the fear of artificial intelligence gaining self-awareness and destroying us all, like some dystopian science fiction movie, won't happen in my lifetime. All that is involved in how OUR brains function, and what makes us self-aware, is still, for the most part, a mystery. To replicate that into a functioning machine is beyond our technological grasp. Oh, we'll keep reaching for it, and someday we just might reach it. But that's a stretch that is too much a strain for today's best and brightest.

Right "Hey Siri"? "Hey Cortana"? "Okay Google"?

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Stuff My Brain Says #68

I think it is hysterical that man, in all of his evolved genius, cannot create a computer equal to a human brain - which, by evolutionist/naturalist terms, is nothing more than a chance combination of arbitrary chemical reactions. Maybe someday he will, but I wonder how - with a brain that is essentially nothing but an accident. Possibly BY accident?

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