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Machines will never think as well as humans
Human brains ARE machines. Any argument that any idiot wants to make against machines ever being capable of anything can be applied with equal validity to our own brains.
| Title | Date | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roomba | 2005 12 | 2010/01/27 TonyLawrence | |||
| - The first thing that bothered me was the paucity of printed material. The Roomba Discovery I bought came with three very small, very terse manuals which really didn't tell me much more than how to charge it up and turn it on. As the initial charge takes several hours, that left me thirsting for more information: how does this thing really work? What do I need to know? Why are these manuals so short? - | |||||
| Wolfram Alpha - Incredible! | 2009 03 | ||||
| - AI search in May? I doubt it. I don't even begin to belief Wolfram's hype. Not going to happen - someday, but not yet. - | |||||
| Lego Mindstorms NXT One-Kit Wonders | 2008 12 | ||||
| - Lego Mindstorms NXT One-Kit Wonders is an expensive toy or an inexpensive robotics kit - however you want to see it. - | |||||
| A setback for AI? | 2007 12 | ||||
| - extreme power of single brain cells indicates artificial intelligence may be farther away - | |||||
| One Smart Rabbit | 2007 12 | ||||
| - wired communication device is definitely early AI interface - | |||||
| Your Public Avatar | 2007 05 | 2012/08/18 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Fantasy review: Imagine if you never had to travel anywhere because a robotic avatar could go in your place. - | |||||
| Artificial Intelligence and Creativity | 2006 06 | ||||
| - Real AI is probably still a long ways off, but possibly not as long as you might think. Ten, twenty years? Maybe. - | |||||
| Machines will never think as well as humans | 2004 12 | ||||
| - I get so annoyed by articles like this. Human brains ARE machines. I am, of course, ignoring any religious nonsense. - | |||||
| Robot devices for mobility from Toyota | 2004 12 | ||||
| - Someday, assistive devices like this will be inexpensive and versatile, heping to give real quality of life to many. - | |||||
| Some Assembly Required | 2004 03 | ||||
| - The real test of processing power is a random set of parts, screws, fittings, and a set of instructions written by someone not all that familiar with your language - | |||||
| We're safe for a while | 2003 09 | ||||
| - Memory isn't everything. Processing power is where machines beat us, at least for the simple things. But how well would a Mac G5 cluster do if it had to do a search through 10^8432 bytes of interrelated data? - | |||||
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