Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: Unfortunately for the crickets, they cannot tell one another apart, and > they cannot tell the difference between a cricket and a plastic model of > one. So, naturalists who wanted to give a male cricket an inferiority > complex engaged in ritual combat with him using a plastic model of

Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread Che
> There are an infinite number of steps between each level. > In the Universe of all material phenomena in general (i.e., so-called 'meta-physics' being pure Idealist wankerism), its development must necessarily be open-ended and emergent. How could it be any other way. So there will always be

Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
a.ashfield wrote: > I think it follows we will have a "conscious" computer even earlier than > Kurzweil forecasts. I think there are various levels of intelligence. Roughly speaking here are three points on the spectrum: 1. Thinking. You can make a case that even

[Vo]:starting list of LENR mysteries

2016-12-16 Thread Peter Gluck
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.ro/2016/12/dec-16-starting-list-of-lenr-mysteries.html peter -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com

[Vo]:A road map to Interstellar Space Travel

2016-12-16 Thread Frank Znidarsic
https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01356

Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread a.ashfield
Jed, Thank you for posting the link to that most interesting article. For some years now I had thought that consciousness was just the brain making an image of one's surroundings and examining that image. I see now that is unnecessary, that the brain examines the actual image in real time and

[Vo]:Google

2016-12-16 Thread Frank Znidarsic
I am also amazed by Google. They provide, free of charge, their appcompiler Android Studio to anyone; even me. Iwas able as an older retired, skills out of date, engineer, to figure it out. This was done without human instruction. I thenpublished apps into the global market. Isold an app

Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread Frank Znidarsic
-Original Message- From: Jack Cole To: vortex-l Sent: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 7:10 am Subject: Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT It is rather remarkable. A recent story along these lines is that it can even translate between

Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jack Cole wrote: > . . . A recent story along these lines is that it can even translate > between two untrained languages. > > For example, if the system has been trained to translate between English > and Spanish and English and Portuguese, then it can reasonably translate >

Re: [Vo]:Article about Artificial Intelligence in NYT

2016-12-16 Thread Jack Cole
It is rather remarkable. A recent story along these lines is that it can even translate between two untrained languages. For example, if the system has been trained to translate between English and Spanish and English and Portuguese, then it can reasonably translate between Spanish and