It's interesting that the AI dream from circa 1950 of creating a rational intelligent conceptualising machine - epitomised by 2001's HAL 9000 computer - has fallen away and we now attempt high level "intelligence" tasks with neural networks and big data. This parallels the change from thinking of the brain as mind - the cogito ergo sum persona - to seeing the brain as a massively parallel association processor, with consciousness being the just the tip of that particular iceberg, albeit the fun part.
We don't imagine we can "understand" what a neural network or a multifactor regression discovers - the result is the result. Similarly, quoting SF writer David Zindell: If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. - Jim Jan Whitaker wrote: > The Age Of Big Data > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
