Hmm...bile I couldn't find. Disdain yes, bile no:-)
Oh, and check your religion at the door when you step into the temple of AI. It is its own religion, and it IS a jealous god.
Minsky's version of AI doesn't believe in Jesus or Buddha or any of those guys. Of course, it wouldn't even believe in them when they were alive. Humanity's not its strong suit.
Talk about the pit of fools. I once got into a violent argument with Marvin Minsky a few years ago at a conference in Vancouver. My basic appraisal of Minsky is that he was quite excited by the possibility of creating computers that would take the place of human beings, because he had a very limited appreciation for what it meant to be human. I figure his Mom must have treated him badly or something.
You know the old saying that if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Well, if Minsky had been a hammer maker, he would have called everyone Spike.
I also like to laugh at Microsoft's pathetic hyping of natural language interfaces. Fortunately for their competitors (apparently most of the rest of humanity, according to their legal team), their billions of dollars of research will be based on the same fundamental blunder, the belief that human thought -- and speech -- is just computer processing with a big wet mushy chip. The tragic part of this misperception is that it indicates just how dehumanizing technology can be to its chief acolytes; or did they start out that way?
Let's first of all understand that Turing's famous test is the ultimate blonde of ideas, cute but vacant.
Turing himself suffered from an encrypted brain, having lost his privates key down the commode in a neighborhood pub during an ugly episode, which resulted in his having to goto the hospital for an enigma. When he was done, he looked like he'd been through a World War.
One big problem with his test for Artificial Intelligence is that is wasn't reflective enough. The question he didn't answer is what would it prove if a computer could spend an hour talking to Giraldo on the other side of the wall and not be able to tell it was a human being. And if the Giraldo suddenly stopped talking in mid-sentence, would the computer assume its counterpart had Blue Screened, Sad Mac'd, or Core Dumped? And would it contribute to his annual support contract fees? Would they marry and spawn threads?
What he also didn't follow up on were some of the broader implications of the test. For example, what would it prove if Turing spent an hour talking to a computer on the other side of a wall and wound up lending it five quid? Articial Stupidity?
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Hmm...bile I couldn't find. Disdain yes, bile no :-)
Oh, and check your religion at the door when you step into the temple of AI. It is its own religion, and it IS a jealous god.
Minsky's version of AI doesn't believe in Jesus or Buddha or any of those guys. Of course, it wouldn't even believe in them when they were alive. Humanity's not its strong suit.
Artificial Intelligence is Stupid!
Talk about the pit of fools. I once got into a violent argument with Marvin Minsky a few years ago at a conference in Vancouver. My basic appraisal of Minsky is that he was quite excited by the possibility of creating computers that would take the place of human beings, because he had a very limited appreciation for what it meant to be human. I figure his Mom must have treated him badly or something.
You know the old saying that if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Well, if Minsky had been a hammer maker, he would have called everyone Spike.
I also like to laugh at Microsoft's pathetic hyping of natural language interfaces. Fortunately for their competitors (apparently most of the rest of humanity, according to their legal team), their billions of dollars of research will be based on the same fundamental blunder, the belief that human thought -- and speech -- is just computer processing with a big wet mushy chip. The tragic part of this misperception is that it indicates just how dehumanizing technology can be to its chief acolytes; or did they start out that way?
Let's first of all understand that Turing's famous test is the ultimate blonde of ideas, cute but vacant.
Turing himself suffered from an encrypted brain, having lost his privates key down the commode in a neighborhood pub during an ugly episode, which resulted in his having to goto the hospital for an enigma. When he was done, he looked like he'd been through a World War.
One big problem with his test for Artificial Intelligence is that is wasn't reflective enough. The question he didn't answer is what would it prove if a computer could spend an hour talking to Giraldo on the other side of the wall and not be able to tell it was a human being. And if the Giraldo suddenly stopped talking in mid-sentence, would the computer assume its counterpart had Blue Screened, Sad Mac'd, or Core Dumped? And would it contribute to his annual support contract fees? Would they marry and spawn threads?
What he also didn't follow up on were some of the broader implications of the test. For example, what would it prove if Turing spent an hour talking to a computer on the other side of a wall and wound up lending it five quid? Articial Stupidity?