Elon Musk agrees with Scott Jennings' reformation proposal on H-1B visas
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Maybe it has already happened but when A.I. is able to develope emotional capacity and the ability to daydream is when the created becomes the creator.
Don't hold your breath. I worked in an area of A.I. (artificial perception). What we see displayed all the time is a fusion of a language parser and a data-base accession system. It can understand written or spoken requests, conduct information searches, and stitch together a moasic of topic synopses. Artistic production requires a learning database of examples, so it is basically synthetic plagiarism. All very clever, and even useful, but about as intelligent as a toaster. The step beyond these capabilities would be conception, arriving at an idea on the basis of direct experience. Far from that. A.I. is not even capable of sensing pain or pleasure. It can tell a sky from a forest, if we train it that way...but it does not know what a sky is or what a forest is. It has no idea that it is killing people when it kills people (737 MAX MCAS). People are unduly impressed with its great facility at doing really primitively stupid tasks, but at the speed of modern electronics.
Wonderful analysis thank you. What is your opinion on Quantum computing?
Sadly, I don't know enough about it to have an opinion. I can quote the magic words "quantum entanglement" like anybody else, and like anybody else, my understanding pretty much stops at that point. I have the sense that it has the potential for what we might otherwise regard as simultaneous solutions of a system of equations. It puts me in mind of a previous fascination with holographic computation, where information can be represented in the form of a hologram and processed through another hologram to provide the solution. It would be inherently instantaneous. Now that I bring it up, I wonder what became of that line of development. In some cases, the utility of the technique is limited by the ability of the human operators to set up the problem statement.
Thank you kindly Killerspacerobot.