On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 15:30 -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jan 2014, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > And we shouldn't devalue human errors. Computers fail and humans fail, > > but only humans learn by their failures. AI networks have a learn mode > > too, but this feedback thingy is something completely different to human > > self-awareness. > > > > Indeed. In fact if you consider, it is this very self awareness that can > if we so choose result in innovations like computers in the first place. > The willingness through imagination to explore and experiment. the > ability even desire to try, fail and > try again that at least for now, distinguishes us from our creations. > In fact, is it not this devotion to trial and error that produce Linux, > even with its flaws and to my mind goofiness in the first place? > It is this very ability to learn from trial and error that gets added to > the computer operating > systems in the movie "her," that I referenced before. The computers learn > from the humans who use them, with interesting even sexually interesting > results. > Kare
:) Sometimes I have the good luck to work for elementary school children. They ask smart questions and I learn by trying to answer their questions. It's not the knowledge we have that makes us "good", the doubt and questions we have make us impressing beings. And now I will search the web for that movie "her". _______________________________________________ D-community-offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
