On Feb 27, 4:52 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/27/2012 1:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > On Feb 27, 3:32 pm, meekerdb<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/27/2012 11:54 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > >>>>> AIs can generate their own software. That is the point of AI. > >>> They don't have to generate their own software though, we have to tell > >>> them to do that and specify exactly how we want them to do it. > >> Not exactly. AI learns from interactions which are not known to those who > >> write the AI > >> program. > > ...when we program them specifically to 'learn' in the the exact ways > > which we want them to. > > They can learn by higher level program modifications too, and those can also > be random. > So there is no evidence that their learning is qualitatively different from > yours.
There is no such thing as evidence when it comes to qualitative phenomenology. You don't need evidence to infer that a clock doesn't know what time it is. 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.
