Yes, that's basically it..Posted by chocolate (here)
Not to derail, but when speaking of AI being not of this world ( and all the rest ), I think we need to realign our perspective points here:
Google’s New Computer With Human-Like Learning Abilities Will Program Itself
http://betabeat.com/2014/10/googles-...rogram-itself/
just sayin...
that is how it's started, and then again:
India: Plastic Surgery And Genetic Science -
Found In Ancient Vedas - Were Practized Thousands Of Years Ago
.. So, what can I do?
I can stop following...
From Terence McKenna, Shamans among the machines (and here we go again ..): "People are not machines but in every opportunity where they're allowed to behave like machines, they will so behave." In other words, we tend to fall into the well of habit. Though the glory of our humanness is our spontaneous creativity, we too as creatures of physics and chemistry, of memory and hope, tend to fall into repetitious patterns. These repetitious patterns are the death of creativity. They diminish our humanness."