On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote: >> Generally when Watson was wrong he knew he was probably wrong. I find >> that significant. >> > > > I find that significant too, but this probability is ultimately computed > by analysing frequencies of occurrence of terms and propositions in its > database, distance and centrality measures on its semantic network and so > on. >
What's with the "but"? It's the same tired old song, Watson may seem like it behaved more intelligently than I did but it wasn't *really* more intelligent than me because it solved the problem his way rather than my inferior unsuccessful way. > I agree with you that we will probably need algorithms that evolve more > complex algorithms. This is scary too, because once evolution is involved > we can no longer be sure of the motivations of the machines. > There is no way humans can remain in control because you just can't outsmart something that is far smarter than you are. The best that we can hope for is that Mr. Jupiter Brain may develop some level of empathy; it we're lucky He might be fond of us for nostalgic reasons, after all without us He wouldn't exist, but our welfare will never be His primary concern. By the way, some may complain about my use of capitalization in the preceding sentence but I was reminded of an old science fiction story where people built a giant computer to once and for all answer the question "is there a God?. The computer answered "there is now". > > Don't you get to a point where you wonder about the point of all this > utilitarianism? No I don't, but it wouldn't matter even if I did because facts would remain true even if I didn't like them. John K Clark -- 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/d/optout.
