but to make mansions for the souls that God has made.
Even if machines shouldn’t make humans feel inferior
and humans wouldn’t like it, it could happen.
Even though there are limits to logic,
humans are also limited.
Even though there are mysteries to consciousness
we don’t need to solve them to create a thinking machine.
We can make a machine behave any way we like,
be self-aware, have a wide range of behaviors, or make mistakes.
Even if a machine may do only what it is programmed to do,
it can still be programmed to surprise and delight.
With enough computing power,
digital machines can imitate human analog systems.
Although it seems that human behavior obeys no rules,
machines may follow rules equally subtle and complex.
Even if human beings have extra-sensory perceptions,
they can leave that at the door and still behave with intelligence.
Thinking
A poem can be made
to appear to think
with the benefit
of a pair of dice
and a set of human-
like responses.
“Some may say so;
others may disagree.”
“I wish you’d tell me
what you expect.”
“I’m not telling you
how to run your life.”
“Examine yourself;
you’re no Einstein.”
“Can I get back
to you on that?”
“The answer is 42.”
Toss those dice.
If you don’t do it,
someone else will.
Ha, ha. Oddly,
it’s not that hard.
I mean other things
are harder.
In his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,”
Alan Turing answered nine objects to his assertion that computers
could some day imitate humans.
Computer intelligence does not require the ability to piss, spit,
or dance en pointe. Biological creatures have their own blessings and curses
that machines will not need to reproduce.
In his paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing answered nine objects to his assertion that computers could some day imitate humans.
Computer intelligence does not require the ability to piss, spit, or dance en pointe. Biological creatures have their own blessings and curses that machines will not need to reproduce.
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