18 Replies to “Trolls To Be Replaced By Machines [Dan Collins]”

1. cranky-d says:

   February 16, 2008 at 3:15 pm

   While I don’t know as much about AI as this guy, I do know a bit. My prediction is that human level intelligence in a computer program is a long way off, if it ever comes.

   Just getting a computer with a camera attached to understand what it’s looking it is currently not feasible. A machine cannot generalize like a human.

2. Dan Collins says:

   February 16, 2008 at 3:18 pm

   Yeah, but it can generalize like a troll, right?

3. happyfeet says:

   February 16, 2008 at 3:18 pm

   I think a machine what can say Yes We Can is probably something I’ll see in my lifetime though.

4. guinsPen says:

   February 16, 2008 at 3:41 pm

   My prediction is that human level intelligence in a computer program is a long way off, if it ever comes.

   How about in the District of Columbia?

5. cranky-d says:

   February 16, 2008 at 4:39 pm

   If you’re looking for a machine that can troll, I think that’s completely do-able with current technology, since you can program in the trollishness. It would tend to repeat itself, but so do trolls. All you need is some language processing, which isn’t perfect, but then again, trolls miss the point all the time too.

   I guess the only thing standing in the way is a market.

   It’s the same with a “Yes We Can” machine, I think. I’m not sure if there is that much original thought going on there either.

6. serr8d says:

   February 16, 2008 at 5:24 pm

   Confronting that age-old question…what separates a href=”http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/cyberanthropos.html”>life from nonlife?

   As we miniaturize the nanocircuitry for our computers more and more, approaching ever closer to the threshold for quantum mechanics to “take over,” we may be surprised to find that we are on the verge of observing the sudden “phase transition” that may have produced life from nonlife aeons ago…

   Well, it would help if we could discount our souls, and view our brains as programmable ‘wetware’. Souls aren’t much in vogue today, anyways.

   Oh, and ‘anthropocybersynchronicity’.

   For the rhythm!

   (BTW, AI trolls sere introduced in LOTR; a MASSIVE undertaking…

7. serr8d says:

   February 16, 2008 at 5:25 pm

   life

8. Drumwaster says:

   February 16, 2008 at 7:00 pm

   The limiting factor for nanotechnology is software. It has to be 100% bug-free and crash-proof; 99.999999999+% is simply not good enough. As Spider Robinson put it, “If the software controlling nanobots were as stable as, say, the most popular word-processor program currently available, the world would be turned into gray goo sometime next Thursday…”

9. McGehee says:

   February 16, 2008 at 7:15 pm

   Machines in our brains to make us smarter.

   Running Vista.

10. Obstreperous Infidel says:

    February 16, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Datadave cannot be happy about this development.

11. Obamaniac says:

    February 16, 2008 at 8:07 pm

    Yes, we can!

12. Obamaníaco says:

    February 16, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    ¡Si, se puede!

13. Fanatiker des Obamas says:

    February 16, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    Ja, wir können!

14. Fanatique d'Obama says:

    February 16, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    Oui, nous pouvons !

15. Dan Collins says:

    February 16, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Raise your hand if you’re Sure!

16. Dan Collins says:

    February 16, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    You’re not fully clean until you’re O-Bama! clean!

17. Swen Swenson says:

    February 16, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    My prediction is that human level intelligence in a computer program is a long way off, if it ever comes.

    You must not be dealing with the same humans that I do..

18. J. Peden says:

    February 16, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Kurzweil doesn’t seem to realize that the Trolls have already beat him to the perfection of artificial intelligence.

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