[R] My dream ...

[Abby Spurdle]

Hi Jim,

I think you've mis-quoted me.
I didn't say that.


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Abby Spurdle:
> In my opinion the advantage of computers is not Artificial
> Intelligence, but rather Artificial Patience (most AI that I have seen
> is really doing a bunch of what I would consider to be boring, really
> fast so people don't have to).  Leave the Intelligence to the people.
>
> Abby's response contains a complaint that is often directed at
> technical advances. So what if we can devise a way to perform some
> boring task rapidly? I answer that it allows us to delegate the boring
> task to the machine and proceed with the integration of the results.
> We run the risk of Douglas Adams' delightful result that we cannot
> understand, but nearly all of the "big" scientific endeavors stand
> upon the shoulders of machines doing boring tasks whose duration at
> human speed would see us all out. My idea of AI is a sort of teamwork
> between the error-prone synthesis of man and the precise analysis of
> machine, not a struggle for dominance  of one or the other.
>
> Jim
>
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