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The New York Times is running an article describing the ideas of Ray Kurzweil.  (This is the guy who's developed OCR and text-to-speech technologies for the blind.)   He says in this article that by 2029 we'll be making machines "as smart as ourselves".  (I'm not sure if that's a high bar or a low one.  :giantgrin:)




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Brian wrote: The New York Times is running an article describing the ideas of Ray Kurzweil.  (This is the guy who's developed OCR and text-to-speech technologies for the blind.)   He says in this article that by 2029 we'll be making machines "as smart as ourselves".  (I'm not sure if that's a high bar or a low one.  :giantgrin:)

:lmao: I'm already having a problem keeping up with my computer. Every time I think I have it figured out, it changes on me. Are computers female????::rotfl::
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muddawber wrote: Brian wrote: The New York Times is running an article describing the ideas of Ray Kurzweil.  (This is the guy who's developed OCR and text-to-speech technologies for the blind.)   He says in this article that by 2029 we'll be making machines "as smart as ourselves".  (I'm not sure if that's a high bar or a low one.  :giantgrin:)

:lmao: I'm already having a problem keeping up with my computer. Every time I think I have it figured out, it changes on me. Are computers female????::rotfl::
I think that comment just screams for a parallel port joke, but I'll refrain... ::chuckle::




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Just how far has artificial intelligence progressed so far ?

Anybody have any general idea in laymans terms ?

 
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cynicalninja wrote: Just how far has artificial intelligence progressed so far ?

Anybody have any general idea in laymans terms ?
In terms of a computer "understanding" anything, I think it's not very advanced at all.  Computers are still achingly "stupid", in that way.  The best successes have come in things like image recognition and speech-to-text/voice recognition.  The Turing test has yet to be passed, but that's not necessarily the best test of intelligence.  Scientists have developed self-repairing algorithms, and in a sense, this is part of making machines "intelligent" (giving them the ability to respond independently to new data).

Real intelligence probably requires developing a novel approach to new data.  I'm not sure how far along we've come in that.  The standard computer model is responding to data in pre-programmed ways.




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Brian wrote: muddawber wrote: Brian wrote: The New York Times is running an article describing the ideas of Ray Kurzweil.  (This is the guy who's developed OCR and text-to-speech technologies for the blind.)   He says in this article that by 2029 we'll be making machines "as smart as ourselves".  (I'm not sure if that's a high bar or a low one.  :giantgrin:)

:lmao: I'm already having a problem keeping up with my computer. Every time I think I have it figured out, it changes on me. Are computers female????::rotfl::
I think that comment just screams for a parallel port joke, but I'll refrain... ::chuckle::

::chuckle::




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