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WCDT 22-26 August 2011 (1996-2000)
stoutfiles:
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--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 26 Aug 2011, 07:35 ---How so? Physically there's no question, they can be placed in a body that's designed for any task. Mentally, they would compute problems like a computer, efficiently and without distractions. They never die, only getting more proficient as hardware and software improves. Whatever you do, a robot could do it better. It'd be like Neo from the Matrix..."I know Kung Fu!". Instantly they are trained at whatever took you years to perfect.
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Because technical proficiency in music is not a hallmark of success. In fact, even today, the technical best players are often not the most well recognized, famous, or even the most lauded by critics. There are other qualities that are necessary, such as ingenuity, charisma, and maybe sheer audacity.
Not to say that, in the QCverse, AI would be incapable of competing musically (or in any creative format) just that many qualities that create a good artist are personality based. Just as not every human is a good artist, nor could every AI be a good artist. There is no algorithm for creative success.
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There is an algorithm for everything, just because it seems impossible to comprehend the human algorithm doesn't mean it isn't there. Also, technical proficiency is a big help. I'm not going to win any musical contests picking up a guitar for the first time, especially a robot who has the ability to play any song perfectly.
However, art is mostly opinionated. The majority of jobs are just about getting a task done, which a robot would truly excel at.
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 26 Aug 2011, 08:19 ---
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 26 Aug 2011, 07:35 ---Whatever you do, a robot could do it better
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In principle, one day, perhaps (first we have to define "better", which is not always trivial). But not in the here and now - nor, as far as I can see, in the QCverse.
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They seem to be giving the robots free will, so they aren't the true workhorses that a robot can be. But, like I said, if you can have more advanced sentient robots, then you can easily have non-sentient robots programmed to take jobs away from humans (and sentient robots?).
Mark7:
What's the POD (Point Of Departure) for the QC timeline? Turing doesn't commit suicide?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: stoutfiles on 26 Aug 2011, 13:53 ---There is an algorithm for everything, just because it seems impossible to comprehend the human algorithm doesn't mean it isn't there.
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Er, see Gödel after class. Then read up on computability. Also there are algorithms which can be described, but which are not executable in this universe.
Kugai:
Hooo boy, hope they can sort that Registry problem out. I'd like to see Momo keep that Chassis.
It does look a little sad to see her old Chassis just lying there. I wonder if Marigold will keep it as a 'Backup Device' for Momo.
Boradis:
--- Quote from: DSL on 26 Aug 2011, 03:50 ---I'll keep my optimism, thanks.
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I'm very much an optimist. I am simply saying the reason things have slowed down is not due to a lack of desire. What's holding us back is a non-trivial technical hurdle -- that's all. If anyone's a pessimist it's Jeph who seems to think we stopped going into space because it was boring.
I firmly believe real human spaceflight is right around the corner, possibly within the next few decades. I believe that we just need a major advancement in propulsion or materials science and bam we'll be building orbital colonies and Moon cities like mad. Now that they can make big sheets of carbon nanotubes I'm betting on a space elevator and/or tethers.
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 26 Aug 2011, 04:18 ---
And to the person who thought "empty" Momo looked sad, that's funny because I read this with my friend and he said the same thing :lol: (it is a little unsettling)
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It reminds me of an awesome scene in an old Astro Boy cartoon where they have to sneak in somewhere, so the scientist who's basically Astro's adoptive dad walks by the guards carrying a briefcase. Once inside he opens it to reveal Astro "field stripped" and deactivated, his eyes "dead." Really threw me for a loop as a kid, but really highlighted the point that he's still a freakin' machine.
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