On Aug 20, 9:36 pm, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig, > you know more about the 'IBM-Synapse' achievement than myself (easy: I know > nothing, did not even thopughtfully decipher the article in all its > details). > I would ask IBM (they may not reply of course) if their machine (chip?) can > solve ANY technical problem barred by unsurmountable difficulties to a - not > only reasonable - but to a BETTER result than expected?
Yes, I think that's the key. We want to make an intelligence which can supersede our own yet forever remain our pet/toy/slave. It's a straw man of intelligence. Intelligence has the capacity to step out of it's own system - to express genius in the face of known impossibilities. > An examp[le from my past (and this is not boasting, it is an example how > human creativity could win over the "power of poverty". > In Commi Hungary the pharmceutical researchers wnted ion exchange resins for > a process to extract streptomycin from its broth. They did not have the > foreign currency to buy it, so they came to me (project Ion Exchange in the > polymer Research Inst.) to make such for them. I needed the cross-linking > agent (di-vinyl-benzene) to make the polymer and, of course I did not get > the foreign currency for it either. So I went to the Organic Chem. pilot > plant for styrene (Mono-vinyl-benzene) if they have some side-product I > could use. They had a distillation residue, a dark goo and stated that it > contains 15-25% of the stuff. Iff... > I had no facilities to extract it, so I decided the peasant-way: put the > entire goo into my mixture tp be polymerized and hoped that after cleaning > out all dirt from the resulting (cross-linked) polymer it will show > usability. After lots of cleaning I got seemingly OK bead-polymeers, which > after further treatment went into strepto-testing. That's when the Heureka > broke out: my dirty product bound several times more of the antibiotic than > the World Market products. The rest was routine: reproductions, changing > parameters and applying for the patents. That's awesome, and that to me is what Real Science is. A human identity fully engaged in breaking through to improved significance on multiple human and human interpreted levels. >Does the machine-brain go after > such series of hurdles and evaluate what can be done? Does it stay within > the limits and reduce the events to their applicability? > This was one example without rules and systems, no calculations, only > circumventing the obstacles untold. > > John M Congratulations, that's a great true story. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
