From: Virginia Bowen (vbowen@bowenconsulting.net)
Date: Wed 20 Nov 2002 - 05:19:45 GMT
I thought I'd read that in some of the AI experiments in Texas the computers
are beginning to "learn"...
And here's the other question - yes, the ideas are ORIGINALLY input by
humans - but they are no longer passed along by humans necessarily. So do
memes *care* if the medium is aware of the meme?
Virginia
Murrieta, CA
"My treasures do not clink together nor glitter. They gleam in the sun and
bray in the night."
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> As near as I can tell, computers only pass memes from humans to other
> humans. They pass the encoded message from computer to computer, but
> so far the computers don't get the message, they just pass it. Only
> humans understand it. The day the computer understands the message is
> the day we'd better get ready to pass the baton and let the new kid
> take over.
>
Not only do the computers not understand it, they also did not create it.
It was inputted to the computers by human interfacers. Wade is right
about this point; only when computers begin to demonstrate
authentically creative behavior can we begin to contemplate granting
that they might be experiencing self-aware states.
>
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