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Default Re: Illwinter is ahead of the Computer Science Field by CENTURIES

No no, anything but the soft cushions!


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Originally Posted by thejeff View Post
Their actions do change over time, depending perhaps on their experiences. But the actions of a sufficiently complicated program can change over time depending on it's inputs (which would correspond to experiences).

It may be that the perceived difference lies only in that we are more complicated and that we can not see our own programming.

The difference being that you are imminently capable of making logical leaps into heretofore unexplored intellectual territory.

The machine (as we know it today, in 100% of all cases, period), however, is still bound to predefined territory within which it draws its conclusions.
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