From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2008 - 12:43:29 MDT
--- Stuart Armstrong <dragondreaming@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Meanwhile AGI is developing under your nose. Just don't expect it to
> have
> > human form or human behavior. Have you noticed how Google is slowly
> getting
> > better at natural language understanding and image recognition? Have you
> > noticed how humans are letting computers think for them more and more?
>
> Of course I've noticed. But better language recognition programs are
> not going to be a threat. Programs that display true understanding
> could be - and we're nowhere near that yet.
Language recognition and language understanding are the same thing.
-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com
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