Author: Terry Ripple
Date: 06:11:52 10/16/02
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On October 15, 2002 at 12:38:28, Graham Laight wrote: >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 ---------------------- "Memorization" doesn't prove intelligence!! I was just doing some research on this topic and this was fully explained. Terry
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