Author: Graham Laight
Date: 09:38:28 10/15/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 12:18:41, Terry McCracken wrote: >On October 15, 2002 at 11:53:05, Chris wrote: > >>On October 15, 2002 at 11:49:34, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>What a difference a couple of games makes! >>> >>>When a cheap chess program running on a computer one can buy for oneself evens >>>up the match against the human world champion with back-to-back victories, you >>>just KNOW that the era of the human monopoly on intelligence is drawing to a >>>close! >>> >>>I might have a beer to celebrate... >>> >>>-g >> >> >> >>...why would you want to celebrate that? > >I agree, it doesn't make any sense at all. > >Also there is no truth in his statement. Machines have _no_ intelligence. You can only say that because you choose to define intelligence - and as the machines move in, you move the boundary. Once, doing arithmetic was regarded as intelligent. Then someone makes a machine that outperforms humans. Result? Doing arithmetic is no longer regarded as intelligent. Once (and this was only 5 years ago), it was said that computers that could beat top humans at chess at long time controls was a long time into the future. Then it was done - and now it has been done again - on a cheap computer! So obviously THAT'S not intelligent behaviour. The fact is, whether or not machines are intelligent, they're steadily doing more and more things that used to be regarded as intelligent behaviour. In less than 25 years from now, any task that would today be regarded as intelligent will be able (where allowed to) to be done more cost-effectively by a computer than by a machine. Yes - it's that close - and it's drawing in fast. AFAIC, that's something to celebrate! -g
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