On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Roger Clough <[email protected]> wrote: > > > What I find curious is that so much time and vitriol is spent on the web > attacking theism, > while so much money is spent on ai and computers to simulate humans, when > nobody has ever shown or proven that computers can be conscious.
It's been proven that it cannot be proven. You confuse the mind-body problem with intelligence. AI research has been consistently leading to computers having capabilities that were previously exclusive to humans: translation, playing chess, driving cars, recognising faces, flying planes, answering questions in natural language, formulating scientific theories, finding patterns in data and many others. Even creativity. This is one of my favourite examples: http://idesign.ucsc.edu/projects/evo_antenna.html Most of the funding goes to narrow-AI, which makes sense because it's an easier goal with immediate applications. But creating an artificial human is a very exciting goal, and it would not prove or disprove anything about consciousness. That would be impossible to know. There is no contradiction is pursuing this goal and also not being a theist. There is some contradiction in wanting to achieve such ambitious goals and then wasting time in pointless discussions. :) Telmo. > Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
