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paleotn

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20. Snort!

Mon Jan 21, 2019, 11:52 AM

Jan 2019

Didn't we hear that 15 years ago? Oh, and we'd be flying around like the Jetsons, powered by nuclear fusion.

The deeper we delve into the human mind and try to replicate it, the more we realize how unimaginably complex it truly is. Our greatest creations in this field, be they Siri and Alexa in the public sphere or anything residing in computer labs, are crude imitations of the human mind, like prehistoric cave paintings of ancient animals. They are mere computational machines. Autonomous calculators. That is not human thought and will not replace human thought any time soon no more than computers eliminated paper from offices in the 80's. Like faster than light travel, we may never reach true AI and certainly not in the lifetime of anyone alive today. Will technology revolutionize life 40 years from now? No doubt about it, but I dare say Alexa will only be marginally less stupid than she already is.

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