Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
I work for an international conglomerick and they just released a, uh, kind of big picture vision internal message, and AI figures prominently. The idea is sort of that people will be freed up for more rewarding endeavours by automation, so 1950's futurism 2.0? It was pretty far out, with a positive outlook. I was surprised by it.
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Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
In passing, it reads like a very, uh, human response. I mean, what would you start saying if someone asked you to translate the same thing a dozen times?
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Lots of Google translations, especially shorter phrases, have been warped out of any value by user contributed improvement suggestions. Possibly but not necessarily involving a neural network sifting through the user suggestions. Minor or derived uses - like band or song names - seem to outweigh the real meaning you were looking for.
So I'm basically disagreeing with the article ... but still heading off to see what weirdness I can get Google to come up with ....
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
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Originally Posted by BrotherMan
In passing, it reads like a very, uh, human response. I mean, what would you start saying if someone asked you to translate the same thing a dozen times?
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Although Alternet isn't the ideal source of sciencey stuff, I really like this article. I've sort of had similar thoughts on how awareness works. To an extent, my idea was that the ganglia and whatever structures are in there might be sort of like trunks of transistors that operate in the active region and have feedback, operating like a higher order dynamic system, or a collection of them. Pretty nebulous, but it just seems more likely to me than a collection of transistors that operate either off or saturated, like binary bits. I'd heard that idea before but I'm skeptical of it.
The article is from a real life professor and it covers some theory.