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Wonderful. Today too seven extra pops for 'metaphor' tag, and 'tomorrow', sixteen implied 'pops'. Perhaps. Perhapsness, guess and constant reorganisation of the material is an big one. abailart, you need be more explicit for me to understand the comment.. sorry  The brain is wet The brain is capable beyond our imagination and beyond our expectations! The comparison has been made with our limited knowledge of our own brains...methinks so! The brain has taken millions of years to get to its present state - Computers well what, 50 years or so? Computers were made by brains Skwirl, do take into consideration Kurzweil law of acceleration, 50 yrs may mean 5 million yrs.. Or 5 milliseconds very true Relativity - can a computer truly understand relativity? not yet.. but give it, 20 or 50 yrs and i think that relativity will be the least of its understandings and then we need ask.. what is understanding? Singularity and the growth of differences Basic to the concept of a technological (or historical) singularity is rapidly accelerating change, building cumulatively on past results and resulting in an end state that is hard to predict from the initial conditions. While it can (and maybe should, if only to clarify the conditions) be debated whether we are truly approaching a singularity in the very strong sense proposed by Vinge, it is clear that we live in an era of high rate of change that seems to be cumulative and persistent over time instead of isolated lurches forward. A computer's understanding of Relativity, will be absolutely pragmatic, dealing with the information it has. Anything that moves has a different relative time, and this has to be taken into account when calculating position, and trajectory. Einstein made relativity easier to understand by taking it off the blackboard, and creating images that could be seen by our imagination. Is it essential for intelligence to have an imagination? What we consider to be understanding, can involve a great deal of speculation, which cannot be verified. Will intelligence involve learning from mistakes, it's own, or ours? What will it learn of us by our mistakes and history. Will we incorporate A.I. into our in... Will a 'computer' ever be curious ? Can AI develop curiosity on its own or must it be fist programmed in? Using metaphors, does not exclude differences, even critical ones. Also it is important to note how the metaphor is used. Current implementations of computers are definitely not brains. But it is clearly plausible that brains are a very complex kind of a computer. Perhaps there is a lot we should still learn and understand about computers so the metaphor fits better, but computing at large is one of the most successful and useful concepts ever created to facilitate science's understanding of natural order and pattern. None of the differences mentioned above seems to me intrinsically and essentially relevant if put to serious scrutiny. It all depends on the level of abstraction we start with. I just read a clip on empathy. This clip doesn't have the same "feel". It says "10 differences...", but there are just 6.  |
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