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Here are 3 links about that: https://www.livescience.com/64621-how-algorithms-can-be-racist.html https://www.livescience.com/65689-ai-human-voice-face.html https://www.livescience.com/58675-artificial-intelligence-learns-biases-from-human-language.html If an AI is trained on social material...

Ah, Watson! If I recall correctly Watson-Jeopardy was much more about broad and parallel database search than language processing. Each Jeopardy question contains more or less hidden key words. The question itself and the combination of key words must point to precisely ONE answer and contains...

That was precisely the point of my post. Things, spoken or written language, can only be understood within their context. And if that context is hidden, or to complex, or outside the text (movie) itself, then no language processing capability is sufficient to make sense from some remark or...

Probably. Didn't like it, anyways. But I can give it another try.

Well, my post was actually about prooving that computers indeed are very close to be that advanced, even if we never encounter any application that integrates all those abilities (since it requires more than a smartphone or desktop can offer in terms of flops). And I even if "Actually, as it...

The general field of language processing can be split into several parts: Separate sound/speech out of surrounding noise. If the computer is equipped with 2 or more microphones there is both hardware and software to do that. Sound to phonemes. We have excellent software for that. Each...

I seriously doubt that we know exactly what happens in the brain when someone is calculating (if you had some article I would be thrilled). But even if your model might be correct when the network is insufficiently trained it is certainly not correct when a person is trained to do – well –...

Researchers from different fields have very different definitions of “consciousness”. And since you ask “a very interdisciplinary question” different readers of this post will have different ideas and concepts and that can cause much confusion. The concepts of emotion, subconsciousness and...

Our universe is an extremely well ordered place, where every particle or group of particles strictly obeys the rules that keep it all running. Every living system has somehow managed to capture some of these rules, relies on them and is able to make predictions based on them. Math is one of many...

Thank you. So kind! I seen no reason for neither fast evolution nor divine intervention. What we have developed are the tools. One can simply chop down a tree faster with an iron ax than a stone one. Our brains evolved together with sign- and spoken language, the abilities of our hands and the...

We perceive them as analogue, but on nerve-level they are distinct, almost binary. A nerve either fires or it does not. And it fires only if a distinct number of impulses arrive at the nerve within a certain time frame. The actual processing of information is very similar to the workings of a...

Even if you only look at the mere thinking part, we can not (yet) build a 100 Tflop computer or network that only weighs 1.5 kg. And if you look beyond the mere processing unit and include energy supply, self-repair system, storing devices, memory devices, frame, temperature regulator, sensors...

It is not strange at all. The brain processes information much faster on a less conscious level, like the extremely complex arithmetic needed to coordinate muscle movement to throw a ball or to form speech. The research behind speed reading shows that the visual cortex can catch information and...

There are several differences between computers and brains that effect speed and efficiency for different tasks: In computers memory (of both data and algorithms) and processing is separated, in brains they are more or less combined. Computers work (basically) serial, brains work parallel. A...

I guess every philosophy and religion struggles with the 2 problems that, what ever you do, who ever you are, one day you and what ever you have built are gone and that the ultimate origin of life, the universe and everything out of nothing is simply inconceivable (even if you try to blame god...