[R] My dream ...

Jim Lemon drj|m|emon @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed May 13 02:23:49 CEST 2020


Sorry, it was listed in Hans' email as a reply from you. Far be it
from me to speak for someone else.

Jim

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:13 AM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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