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Jon links to Forbes’ special edition on AI. I’ll go through most of these, commenting when appropriate. For instance: Dumb Like Google While the switch to “stupid” statistically based computing has given us tools like Google, it came with a steep price, namely, abandoning the cherished notion that computers will one day be like [...] Discussing the singularity is often confusing because it makes claims about both technology and artificial intelligence, and its hard to see how the two fit together. In fact, some philosophers have argued that technology is entirely irrelevant to studying the mind using the techniques of artificial intelligence. The idea is that cognitive science is [...] Bruno Latour, in conversation with Richard Powers, in honor of HAL: BL: To tell you the truth, I have never understood the Turing Test to begin with. In theory, it should match a flesh and blood human against a silicon machine. In practice however it matches a flesh and blood machine against a flesh [...] |
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