At best it'll insult surviving friends and family with some piss-poor imitation of a dead person, basically only serving to dishonor the memory of the deceased.
Bingo... let's take one of the most emotionally fueled aspects of existence and then take our shit computational abilities to make the most unemotional responding attempt to imitate what was lost... I honestly don't know who thought this was a good idea but I seriously hope drugs were involved...
My first thought as to who would have thought of this: marketing people, looking for yet another place to peddle the shitty excuse for 'AI' we have right now.
I've been watching Cosmos: Possible Worlds and was reminded of how many connections exist in the human brain. No machine running any so-called 'AI' software created even comes close to the complexity. We can't even properly emulate the 'brain' of something as simple as a worm or housefly! Yet they keep pushing it.
Indeed. Does not look like we will get there even for a physical brain and then there is the question is what about the configuration ("Software") of the brain and what else may there besides the brain to make it a person. (Assuming pure machines cannot create consciousness and cannot create general intelligence. That question is open at this time, although there are some indicators there may be such a limitation.)
But if you look at the typical mental capabilities of the average person and then at the half
Here's a lurid thought: we already know that too much 'screen time' for young chidren distorts their mental development, stet? Can you imagine what a childs brain woudl develop like if they spent too much time 'conversing' with some half-assed excuse for 'AI' like they keep trotting out to us, instead of interacting with adults and their peers?
I already have been getting more and more convinced that more and more techonological 'conveniences' are making people overall dumber and dumber because they have to work at fewer and fewer things on a daily basis. Can you imagine the impact of something like that?
Just screwing around with how a child is taught to read can sabotage their lifelong cognitive ability, vis-a-vis the 'whole language' method versus the traditional 'phonics' method. It makes me wonder what else we've been doing in the last 50 or 60 years to sabotage peoples' mental development.
Indeed. Sure, very smart and very dumb people will not be affected, but everybody more in the middle needs challenges to grow and growing happens the fastest in children. In particular, most people need exposure to the real world to develop a somewhat reasonable model model of how it works.
So, yes, this may very well further limit the mental capabilities of average people.
As the trials of life continue to take their toll, remember that there
is always a future in Computer Maintenance.
-- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata"
No, it can't. (Score:3)
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Bingo... let's take one of the most emotionally fueled aspects of existence and then take our shit computational abilities to make the most unemotional responding attempt to imitate what was lost... I honestly don't know who thought this was a good idea but I seriously hope drugs were involved...
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I've been watching Cosmos: Possible Worlds and was reminded of how many connections exist in the human brain. No machine running any so-called 'AI' software created even comes close to the complexity. We can't even properly emulate the 'brain' of something as simple as a worm or housefly! Yet they keep pushing it.
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Indeed. Does not look like we will get there even for a physical brain and then there is the question is what about the configuration ("Software") of the brain and what else may there besides the brain to make it a person. (Assuming pure machines cannot create consciousness and cannot create general intelligence. That question is open at this time, although there are some indicators there may be such a limitation.)
But if you look at the typical mental capabilities of the average person and then at the half
Re:No, it can't. (Score:2)
I already have been getting more and more convinced that more and more techonological 'conveniences' are making people overall dumber and dumber because they have to work at fewer and fewer things on a daily basis. Can you imagine the impact of something like that?
Just screwing around with how a child is taught to read can sabotage their lifelong cognitive ability, vis-a-vis the 'whole language' method versus the traditional 'phonics' method. It makes me wonder what else we've been doing in the last 50 or 60 years to sabotage peoples' mental development.
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Indeed. Sure, very smart and very dumb people will not be affected, but everybody more in the middle needs challenges to grow and growing happens the fastest in children. In particular, most people need exposure to the real world to develop a somewhat reasonable model model of how it works.
So, yes, this may very well further limit the mental capabilities of average people.