[lbo-talk] AI

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Nov 19 21:06:14 PST 2003


Miles Jackson asks:


>Consider: what if we learn more and more about human
>cognition and we discover it's nothing like
>machine output?

Then we'll design machines that utilize what we know of human cognition to perform cognitive functions better.

Why is there such a tendency to deny that cognitive functions are beyond the eventual reach of a technology that is now scarcely even newborn?

Shane Mage

"When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.

When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true." (N. Weiner)


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