Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:56:59 08/05/02
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On August 05, 2002 at 17:27:39, Matthew Hull wrote: >On August 05, 2002 at 17:13:12, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On August 05, 2002 at 16:28:56, Russell Reagan wrote: >> >>>On August 05, 2002 at 16:06:26, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>Computers have absolutely no cognition >>>>of any thing at this point in time. Before long, that will change. >>> >>>How will it change? Are there any particular technologies you forsee being big >>>players in the change? Or is it just a feeling that since technology is >>>advancing, it's bound to happen sooner or later? >> >>The brain of a honeybee does about 10 gigaflops (about the same power as the >>retina of your eyeball, for that matter). When computers average that power, it >>will be possible to begin rudimentary experiments in _real_ machine >>intelligence. Not far away. >> >>At some point, computers will have more processing power than a human brain. By >>that time, it will be possible to make a machine that thinks. > >I would submit that if they are Turing machines, the quantity of them will not >suffice to overcome basic computability problems. Penrose has demonstrated this >in his book, The Emperor's New Mind. That's OK. We (as humans) can't overcome the basic computability problems either. I don't see why the machines should have the upper hand in that.
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