This article reminds me of the Astounding! articles predicting global space travel for everyone by the year 2000.
It never came to pass, and neither will this Apple-related garbage.
The creation of a truly sentient AI will require much more than the steady march of Moore's Law. The emulation of neural nets is not something that modern computers are good at; in fact, they are truly horrendous at it. Seeing as that the only blueprint for intelligence we have is contained in the human brain, barring any sudden advance in the area of AI, any AI created that is capable of passing a Turing Test will be an emulation of human intelligence.
Just my.02 on the matter of imminent AI.
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This article reminds me of the Astounding! articles predicting global space travel for everyone by the year 2000. It never came to pass, and neither will this Apple-related garbage.
The creation of a truly sentient AI will require much more than the steady march of Moore's Law. The emulation of neural nets is not something that modern computers are good at; in fact, they are truly horrendous at it. Seeing as that the only blueprint for intelligence we have is contained in the human brain, barring any sudden advance in the area of AI, any AI created that is capable of passing a Turing Test will be an emulation of human intelligence. Just my .02 on the matter of imminent AI.
Another fine article from TechCentralStation on the state of open source and why it will never work...
http://www.techcentralstation.com/100603C.html
Yeah, right. If Neal Stephenson wasn't enough to slashdot their server, maybe this will be...