Comments on: What are machines thinking?

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:53:53 +0000

Your mind may focus a little better under duress, but what you consider to be “every possibility” depends on what sort of rat maze you’ve been accustomed to all your life. Within those narrowly defined avenues, your choices can be predicted and directed with statistical accuracy. Seek cheese, avoid shock, conform to the group. Works well for most.

By: Michael Burns

Michael Burns — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 20:27:19 +0000

Your mind is working best when you are being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation, at high speed and total clarity – Banksy

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 18:11:49 +0000

“Machines don’t think. They never have, and they never will. They perform according to specs.
They can be programmed to select, from a number of options, the option that fulfills the prime directives humans have given them. And that process of selection is carried out according to patterns originally installed by humans.”

The successors of Skinner, Bernays, et al have nearly perfected the art of programming the mass mind. Substitute a couple of words in the statement above, and it is still valid:

“Most people don’t think. They never have, and they never will. They perform according to specs. They can be programmed to select, from a number of options, the option that fulfills the prime directives their programmers have given them. And that process of selection is carried out according to patterns originally installed by the rulers.”

The same types of decision-making and fuzzy logic that most people depend on can be simulated in software — with faster speed, better memory, and a vast and ever-expanding archive of reference material. While artificial intelligence may never exhibit genius level performance, it will certainly surpass the average human. Just ask the folks at Google.

By: OzzieThinker

OzzieThinker — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:49:51 +0000

Jon, you may be wrong here. I believe the Draco have a way of “jump starting” a passive connection into an active one. Technically they could rise corpses from the dead. However, the effect does not produce consciousness in the standard sense. A passive connection is muted and invariably makes a frozen active one (as far as I can gather, but there may be exceptions to the rule). The “zombie” concept or some other “remote control” is on the right lines.

Hope that helps 😉

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By: Abinico Warez

Abinico Warez — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 22:10:39 +0000

This discussion is stupid. Machines cannot think – machines will never be able to think.

By: Bobby

Bobby — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 20:32:13 +0000

Joh, I appreciate your articles for one main reason. You always bring us back from the bullsh-t. You always show us the middle road, in most cases, is where the truth is. Or, if truth is too strong an idea, at least you show us what is and is not workable. You remind me very much of my Dad, who died young(51), but was a very practical and centered man. Thank’s Jon and God bless.

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By: Stuart Clark

Stuart Clark — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:43:26 +0000

John Searle’s “Chinese Room Thought Experiment” does it for me. I know there are detractors to this clever demonstration of the fallacy of machine consciousness, but IMHO they lack the simple elegance of the Chinese Room’s lone occupant, answering questions written in Chinese with the help of a good but voluminous set of rules. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

By: voza0db

voza0db — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 11:01:49 +0000

This comment is not about robots… But about MIND and Drugs!

“Drugs for psychiatric illnesses aren’t very effective. But new research is offering renewed hope for better medicines.” source

Every time I read a statement like this, I always remember your work… I can bet that counting 50 years from now the same statement will be write, simply because the drugs are the causative agents of the “psychiatric illnesses”!

About the Robots… In this present system of Oligarchy Centralized Capitalism robots will only create misery and famine! Nothing else…

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