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LongTomH

(8,636 posts) Sun Oct 15, 2017, 07:55 PM Oct 2017

Here come the humanoids

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Here come the humanoids (Original Post) LongTomH Oct 2017 OP

It would be nice if SOME form of intelligence could survive after human life no longer can. Binkie The Clown Oct 2017 #1

It's not intelligence. Igel Oct 2017 #2

Tongue in cheek... Binkie The Clown Oct 2017 #3

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

1. It would be nice if SOME form of intelligence could survive after human life no longer can.

Reply to LongTomH (Original post)

Sun Oct 15, 2017, 08:40 PM

Oct 2017

Maybe robots are the next step in evolution destined to replace us biological failures.

Igel

(35,320 posts)

2. It's not intelligence.

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 15, 2017, 10:24 PM

Oct 2017

Except possibly in the vacuous sense of passing a Turing test.

It seriously pays to recognize that "artificial intelligence" means one thing to people working in the field and quite a different thing to lay folk.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

3. Tongue in cheek...

Reply to Igel (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 16, 2017, 12:54 AM

Oct 2017

I'm a retired software engineer. Yes, I know "real" AI (which probably doesn't even exist yet) from fake AI.

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