RE: Artificial Intelligence article

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:33:52 -0700 

 

 

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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote:

 

> Artificial Intelligence is accordingly an oxymoron. 

 

Artificial means made by design not by random mutation and natural selection as 
we were. And if you don't have a good definition of intelligence that you can 
express in words you have something better, a example. Intelligence is behavior 
that a smart human performs, and if someone or something outsmarts than human 
then that thing is either intelligent or very very lucky. It is the exact same 
test we humans use to tell the difference between smart people and those less 
smart. What's oxymoronic about that?   

 

> We cannot expect from a (any?) machine to understand (use?) the verbatim 
> non-expressed (infinite potential) of some (any) content and work with it 
> successfully. 

 

Then how on earth did Watson defeat the 2 smartest human Jeopardy players on 
the planet?

 

Agreed. Networked machines have access to all the data repositories they have 
connection & authorization on – and this available store (and deep store) of 
information is truly massive, varied and cross connected. The data-mining 
algorithms have made huge strides over the last decade – driven by the 
insatiable need of the NSA to mine all data. Corporations have all complied and 
made their own data repositories reachable, searchable for this same reason. 
The end result is that a very much larger number of disconnected disparate and 
poorly searchable data has become warehoused in massive data centers with 
rapidly growing search metadata cross indexing this vast stream and quantity of 
raw data.

The information capacity and generated new quantities of information is massive 
(at least by the standards of what our brains can comprehend). The figures I 
looked up for this post are from 2007 (ancient in terms of the information 
explosion). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exabyte

·         65 exabytes of telecom capacity in 2007 – an increase of more than 30 
times the 2.2 exabyte capacity in 2000. Extrapolating this rate of growth to 
the present day would mean that the actual current total telecommunications 
throughput is now in zettabyte (one zettabyte = a trillion gigabytes) territory

·         Single state of the art supercomputers are also entering into 
zettabyte scale and perform at over 10^16 FLOPS (100 petaflops) Exaflop 
supercomputers are just around the corner with China and the US racing neck and 
neck to get them built out by 2018

·         The world's technological per-capita capacity to store information 
has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980. By 2012 almost a zettabyte 
of information was generated and stored… meaning that by now (2014) we are well 
into the zettabyte scale.

 

These numbers and similar global information age statistics boggle the mind. 
And the rates of growth are staggering. Increasingly data is being made 
accessible to the net and centralized into net-facing repositories, getting 
migrated out of hard to access disparate repositories into big data 
repositories (motivated in part by the NSA’s desire to know everything)

> I do not share the pessimism of the good professor,

Whistling through the grave yard.   

> our machines are not (yet?) up to eliminate human ingenuity in the 
> workplaces. 

 

Yes not yet. A man was heard to say as he passed the 20'th floor after falling 
off the top of the Empire State building "so far so good"; now that is 
optimism! 

Hehe – we don’t always get along, but got to give it to you. Nice bit of 
apropos dark wit.

Chris

 John K Clark

 

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