Hi Jim, I think you've mis-quoted me. I didn't say that.
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jim Lemon <drjimle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Abby Spurdle: > In my opinion the advantage of computers is not Artificial > Intelligence, but rather Artificial Patience (most AI that I have seen > is really doing a bunch of what I would consider to be boring, really > fast so people don't have to). Leave the Intelligence to the people. > > Abby's response contains a complaint that is often directed at > technical advances. So what if we can devise a way to perform some > boring task rapidly? I answer that it allows us to delegate the boring > task to the machine and proceed with the integration of the results. > We run the risk of Douglas Adams' delightful result that we cannot > understand, but nearly all of the "big" scientific endeavors stand > upon the shoulders of machines doing boring tasks whose duration at > human speed would see us all out. My idea of AI is a sort of teamwork > between the error-prone synthesis of man and the precise analysis of > machine, not a struggle for dominance of one or the other. > > Jim > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.