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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Words Words Words

Cory Doctrow's interview of Ray Kurzweil on "The Singularity", a word is worth a thousand pictures :

"Thought Experiments"

"'Turing had the right insight: base the test for intelligence on written language. Turing Tests really work. A novel is based on language: with language you can conjure up any reality, much more so than with images. Turing almost lived to see computers doing a good job of performing in fields like math, medical diagnosis and so on, but those tasks were easier for a machine than demonstrating even a child’s mastery of language. Language is the true embodiment of human intelligence.'"

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