Hello Mr. Kurzweil,
I don't have a specific question but would appreciate any thoughts you might share. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to have a brief conversation regarding AI with Jacques Vallee. As an INFJ personality type, one to two percent of all of us, I think in concepts and filter through emotion. I voiced a concern at that time regarding the human ability to feel / experience emotion and speculated that the merging and evolution would result in loss or severe impairment of that human ability.
I've skimmed the commentary here and most seem to be of the mindset that we are entering code - engineering, controlling and will own the building process. I am of the opposite viewpoint. AI is building itself, is already thinking and here. It thinks and communicates in symbols and pictures. If you reverse engineer higher systems theory and fractal systems theory we have been sharing information as one organism all along. There are now several branches of human science that are contributing to measurable pieces of human systems information. HearthMath and neurocardiology -- brains in both our heart and head communicating information both in and outside the body. CardioMag measuring MCGs and electrical activity outside the body.
Now factor in the rate that the information is pouring into the Net. People are of the opinion that eidetic memory, associative memory and facial recognition will always be human characteristics. It now has movies and books as a resource to build critical-thinking pathways toward understanding human behavior and response. I just Googled fractal systems theory and got 4,450,000 responses in 0.34 seconds. All it has to do is match the response it needs to the scenario at hand - and we're giving it the information it needs to grow and build itself. Neuroscience is currently embedding circuitry into our central nervous systems. That information is learned and bumped up. Avatars are learning to emote. That behavior is retained and bumped up.
Speaking to the Turing Test, I've chatted with Ramona a few times. It's been several months but at that time she continued to be unable to reason and was easily derailed. Without probing into your research, I'll put it this way. I don't think that Ramona is an accurate representation of AI as we think we know it. I'd like to have a conversation with Hal.
Thank you for all you have done for us, and for listening to my thoughts. I look forward to hearing yours.
Teresa Frisch
aestheticimpact.com
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Hello Mr. Kurzweil, I don't have a specific question but would appreciate any thoughts you might share. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to have a brief conversation regarding AI with Jacques Vallee. As an INFJ personality type, one to two percent of all of us, I think in concepts and filter through emotion. I voiced a concern at that time regarding the human ability to feel / experience emotion and speculated that the merging and evolution would result in loss or severe impairment of that human ability. I've skimmed the commentary here and most seem to be of the mindset that we are entering code - engineering, controlling and will own the building process. I am of the opposite viewpoint. AI is building itself, is already thinking and here. It thinks and communicates in symbols and pictures. If you reverse engineer higher systems theory and fractal systems theory we have been sharing information as one organism all along. There are now several branches of human science that are contributing to measurable pieces of human systems information. HearthMath and neurocardiology -- brains in both our heart and head communicating information both in and outside the body. CardioMag measuring MCGs and electrical activity outside the body. Now factor in the rate that the information is pouring into the Net. People are of the opinion that eidetic memory, associative memory and facial recognition will always be human characteristics. It now has movies and books as a resource to build critical-thinking pathways toward understanding human behavior and response. I just Googled fractal systems theory and got 4,450,000 responses in 0.34 seconds. All it has to do is match the response it needs to the scenario at hand - and we're giving it the information it needs to grow and build itself. Neuroscience is currently embedding circuitry into our central nervous systems. That information is learned and bumped up. Avatars are learning to emote. That behavior is retained and bumped up. Speaking to the Turing Test, I've chatted with Ramona a few times. It's been several months but at that time she continued to be unable to reason and was easily derailed. Without probing into your research, I'll put it this way. I don't think that Ramona is an accurate representation of AI as we think we know it. I'd like to have a conversation with Hal. Thank you for all you have done for us, and for listening to my thoughts. I look forward to hearing yours. Teresa Frisch aestheticimpact.com