So, John, Hut was a pessimist some 19 years ago. No biggie. I like this Stephen Wolfram stuff because it makes me feel that wonderful things are eventually possible. I doubt if Wolfram would agree with me on this, but I sort of think that data mining the cosmos might re-create past people, places and things. Other times I feel pessimistic and say screw it all. Emotions sort of rule for this particular primate (me).
-----Original Message----- From: John Clark <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Apr 5, 2016 12:38 pm Subject: Whistling past the graveyard Back in 1997 when a computer beat the world Chess champion Piet Hut, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton said "It may be a hundred years before a computer beats humans at Go — maybe even longer. If a reasonably intelligent person learned to play Go, in a few months he could beat all existing computer programs. You don’t have to be a Kasparov”. About the same time science writer George Johnson said "Defeating a human Go champion will be a sign that artificial intelligence is truly beginning to become as good as the real thing.” But in today's new York Times Johnson says "That doesn’t seem so true anymore", and then in a orgie of sour grapes goes on to list the things that computers still aren't good at and to claim that the things they are good at is a testament to the genius of the computer's teachers not of the computer itself, so it's not really a big deal. It just shows what I've been saying, the goal post is always moving and true intelligence is whatever a computer isn't good at, YET. 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
