Recent content by ShadowKraz

And getting under a desk is just as helpful for both.

No, when you increase the resolution, you, of necessity and by definition, increase the number of pixels. Not a good analogy anyway because the Universe, the screen in your analogy, is getting larger.

That is like saying that because we can translate English to French, language is not special. "Natural" language has to be translated into programming language then on down to machine code and vice versa to "natural" language. Neither demonstrates that the ability to use language to communicate...

I guess I have to redefine 'intelligence' to exclude the capability of self-awareness.

Ah, gotcha. But, there is a big difference between mimicking something and actually doing it. As a rough example, an actor mimics another person but is not actually that person. Sometimes you'd swear that they are that person but at the end of the play, they aren't. Further, despite the advances...

Unsure how that's a response to what I said. Please elucidate?

In part, but the hardware and software are still both based in binary.

Despite our species’ love affair with oversimplifying and trying to reduce things down to binary decisions, judgements, and perception, we and all the other animals on this planet use multi-valued logic and cognition. If we didn’t, it wouldn’t be “flight, fight, feed, or fu… reproduce” and...

Yes, yes he is... but it's his motivations that bother many of us. Why is he doing these things? Based upon his actions and words, it is decidedly not for the betterment of our species. That is the true issue here. It's the same issue with any corporation working on AI. It isn't for the...

And disappointingly predictable. At the risk of getting this comment pulled or a warning issued, this is the problem with the relationship between corporations and research. Bean counters attempt to evaluate the results but only use the metric of "how much money can we make off of it hic et nunc".

Yes, thank you for asking for clarification. I do mean non-biological or extra terrestrial. I laugh at people who disparage cats and dogs as 'dumb animals'.

Well, the original question was asking for opinions. As I stated, I'm not anti-AI but anti-AI abuses and would love to converse with a non-human intelligence.

No, AI cannot do anything a human can do in the intellectual realm. Part of this is because the only part of the term 'AI' that is accurate is 'artificial'. It is not intelligent... yet. It should be noted too that as AI get more complex, the more prone they are to 'hallucinating', aka making...

I already know that I will be looking at a circle or section thereof, that's inherent and established already, as well as how the eye works. Don't know why you're bringing an ellipse into this; I never mentioned one. But thank you for your reply.

Sorry, why am I looking straight down? The OP's question, and mine, is about looking at the horizon and noting the perceived change of its curvature as one rises, not about looking straight down.