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To: Steely Tom

A computer program does exactly what the instructions tell it to do. Problem is, the designers don’t foresee what the outcome will be. The program will continue to produce stupid output until it is stopped, and fixed.

No computer program is equivalent to the human mind. The human mind is self-correcting and able to “come to its senses “ and avoid really wrong output. Sometimes the self-correction fails— that is called insanity.


25 posted on 07/29/2018 2:15:17 PM PDT by I want the USA back (This week's hysterical obsession: Russia collusion, again. Last week's: sex tape.)
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To: I want the USA back

“A computer program does exactly what the instructions tell it to do.”


AI is based on neural networks and learning. AI can be trained to give cancer treatment plans then retrained for facial recognition without writing a single program line.
So AI can be crappy (for now), but it’s technically false to say that it’s just “a computer program doing what the it is told to do”.


30 posted on 07/29/2018 2:32:55 PM PDT by miniTAX
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