On 1/28/2015 1:52 AM, LizR wrote:
Machines (Humanly Constructed Artifacts) Cannot Think
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Arnold Trehub <http://edge.org/memberbio/arnold_trehub>
Well, I have an answer to this one, at least. Humans are machines - are, in fact,
humanly constructed artifacts - hence whether machines can think is the same as whether
humans can think.
Has anyone seen "The Imitation Game" by the way?
I saw it and liked it, even though it distorted his story quite a bit. I wish it had
included more about the imitation game and his ideas about AI. As it is I think many
movie goers will come away thinking that the imitation refers only to him pretending to be
straight.
Interestingly, Scott Aaronson recently blogged about asking his doctor for a prescription
to chemically castrate himself because as a teenage nerd his desire for the opposite sex
was so frustrating and hopeless that he thought perhaps with chemical help he could just
concentrate on mathematics and computer science. The doctor talked him out of it.
Brent
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