On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 3:35 AM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
*> If it knows which questions it got wrong, and the correct reply, it > could easily be programmed to improve over time without ascribing > "intelligence" or "consciousness" to it. Can't you admit that? AG* The only thing I can ascribe consciousness to with absolute certainty is me. As for intelligence, if something, man or machine, has no way of knowing when it made a mistake or got a question wrong it will never get any better, but if it has feedback and can improve its ability to correctly answer difficult questions then it is intelagent. The only reason I ascribe intelligence to Einstein is that he greatly improved his ability to answer difficult physics questions (like what is the nature of space and time?), he was much better at it when he was 27 than when he was 7. 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2XDaixLQHzHqMi9ySeD%3D0-vsbSCokDXM8iNSAUpOhdvw%40mail.gmail.com.
