AI Versus Humans – Which Has More Value, a Traffic Cop Or a Signal Light?
Lance Winslow asked:
There is a bit of controversy concerning our artificial intelligent future. Many folks say that AI will never be as good as humans and yet, that is not exactly so. For instance, a human expert chess player cannot beat an AI chess software program, and that became a fact decades ago.
Today, an AI computer is being built by IBM that can beat the world’s greatest Jeopardy Player. Which makes sense because a super computer can store and instantly retrieve terabytes of information, a human brain simply cannot do that, in the present period, even an idiot savant brain.
For someone to actually say or predict that artificial intelligence can never match that of a human is like saying no car will ever be built to match the speed of a horse drawn carriage, that no cotton gin can out-pick a row of slaves in the fields, or that no one will ever make a flying craft that can fly faster and further than a bird. Of course, we all know that it is possible and it’s already been done. Humans build machines that are much more capable than themselves.
A traffic light is of more value than a traffic cop because it never gets tired, never complains, and is incapable of doing less that it was programmed. Much to the chagrin of the policemen’s union, indeed, but the facts are the facts, and we just can’t argue with that. So, when someone says that no AI Machine will replace a human, well, that’s just silly nonsense you see?
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There is a bit of controversy concerning our artificial intelligent future. Many folks say that AI will never be as good as humans and yet, that is not exactly so. For instance, a human expert chess player cannot beat an AI chess software program, and that became a fact decades ago.
Today, an AI computer is being built by IBM that can beat the world’s greatest Jeopardy Player. Which makes sense because a super computer can store and instantly retrieve terabytes of information, a human brain simply cannot do that, in the present period, even an idiot savant brain.
For someone to actually say or predict that artificial intelligence can never match that of a human is like saying no car will ever be built to match the speed of a horse drawn carriage, that no cotton gin can out-pick a row of slaves in the fields, or that no one will ever make a flying craft that can fly faster and further than a bird. Of course, we all know that it is possible and it’s already been done. Humans build machines that are much more capable than themselves.
A traffic light is of more value than a traffic cop because it never gets tired, never complains, and is incapable of doing less that it was programmed. Much to the chagrin of the policemen’s union, indeed, but the facts are the facts, and we just can’t argue with that. So, when someone says that no AI Machine will replace a human, well, that’s just silly nonsense you see?
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