Re: language as a form of encryption

From: DSCOTT (daVvid_a_scott@email.com)
Date: 01/31/03 

From: daVvid_a_scott@email.com (DSCOTT)
Date: 31 Jan 2003 02:56:05 GMT

jonathan_asher@hotmail.com (Jon Cohen) wrote in
<3e39db58$0$28553@echo-01.iinet.net.au>:

>> >>
>> >> Why some how thats what babies do when they are born since they
>> >> don't know any language. So it would be no harder for a properly
>> >> programed machine than a tiny baby.
>> >
>> >Here's a challenge for you: Program a computer to tell the difference
>> >between pictures of dogs and pictures of cats. Any little kid can do
>> >it
>so
>> >it should be easy right?
>> >
>> >Jon
>> >
>>
>> I suspect it will be easy some day. But I have seen kids that can't
>> tell the difference In fact I get confused some time. Maybe you
>> don't which may give you the edge in writting such a program.
>
>OK, make the problem a bit easier. Get the program to tell the
>difference between a cat and a tree well enough that if I give it a
>picture of any cat or any tree, it can tell me what it is. Surely every
>little kid can do that? If I were to chop off the top of the tree, the
>kid would still identify it as a tree and not a cat.
>
>You fail to see the point here. The point is that a computer sees a
>picture as a matrix of numbers representing light intensities. How do
>you even know where the cat begins and the background ends? Even if you
>can reliably do this, how do you tell the difference between one shape
>and the next? A little kid's brain is able to do this with lightning
>speed and is also able to compensate for varying light intensities,
>distances, resolutions and incomplete information and is able to
>reconstruct three dimensional images from the two dimensional images on
>its retina.
>
>The human brain is more complex than the most advanced supercomputer. It
>performs the remarkable engineering feats of getting us to walk, see,
>learn language etc. It has been said that modern computers think at the
>level of a "retarded cockroach". No computer around can perform these
>tasks nearly as well as a little kid can.
>
>So please, write a program that is able to learn a language merely from
>interactions with other computers and humans. It would be a valuable
>addition to the field of Artificial Intelligence and will move computer
>science from retarded cockroaches to tiny babies - a very big jump
>indeed.
>
>Jon
>
>
>

  I really think we are not that far away. It will not be long until
one could model the human brain in a neural network or even a computer.
I suspose we will be there shortly unless mankind destorys himself. Self
aware computers are not that far away.

David A. Scott 

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