Yet again, Jay Valentine makes sense of the nonsensical. Imagination is the key component of human intelligence that is absent in machine-learning. Imagination is the singularity of human existence that separates authentic human intelligence from artificial intelligence, and the ongoing attempts to merge man and machine––which is intentionally and deceitfully named The Singularity.
Imagination is a miracle so common everyone takes it for granted. The power to imagine things is one of God's greatest gifts to humanity, right up there with the power of choice. Both powers are entirely spiritual in character; supernatural powers to imagine and to choose.
Here are excerpts from an essay by Albert Einstein, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Kepler's death. It appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung on Nov. 9, 1930.
In anxious and uncertain times like ours, when it is difficult to find pleasure in humanity and the course of human affairs, it is particularly consoling to think of the serene greatness of a Kepler. Kepler lived in an age in which the reign of law in nature was by no means an accepted certainty. How great must his faith in a uniform law have been, to have given him the strength to devote ten years of hard and patient work to the empirical investigation of the movement of the planets and the mathematical laws of that movement, entirely on his own, supported by no one and understood by very few! ...
One can never see where a planet really is at any given moment, but only in what direction it can be seen just then from the Earth, which is itself moving in an unknown manner around the Sun. The difficulties thus seemed practically unsurmountable.
Kepler had to discover a way of bringing order into this chaos.
I'm no expert on AI, but I my entire career was spent writing machine controls software, with a wide range of associated functionalities, such as modeling and user interfaces. I had opportunities to see how AI was "trained" to guide agricultural vehicles. But I also never saw any "intelligence" in it. Just massive amounts of data.
Yet again, Jay Valentine makes sense of the nonsensical. Imagination is the key component of human intelligence that is absent in machine-learning. Imagination is the singularity of human existence that separates authentic human intelligence from artificial intelligence, and the ongoing attempts to merge man and machine––which is intentionally and deceitfully named The Singularity.
Imagination is a miracle so common everyone takes it for granted. The power to imagine things is one of God's greatest gifts to humanity, right up there with the power of choice. Both powers are entirely spiritual in character; supernatural powers to imagine and to choose.
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Here are excerpts from an essay by Albert Einstein, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of Kepler's death. It appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung on Nov. 9, 1930.
In anxious and uncertain times like ours, when it is difficult to find pleasure in humanity and the course of human affairs, it is particularly consoling to think of the serene greatness of a Kepler. Kepler lived in an age in which the reign of law in nature was by no means an accepted certainty. How great must his faith in a uniform law have been, to have given him the strength to devote ten years of hard and patient work to the empirical investigation of the movement of the planets and the mathematical laws of that movement, entirely on his own, supported by no one and understood by very few! ...
One can never see where a planet really is at any given moment, but only in what direction it can be seen just then from the Earth, which is itself moving in an unknown manner around the Sun. The difficulties thus seemed practically unsurmountable.
Kepler had to discover a way of bringing order into this chaos.
OUTSTANDING!
Anyone with intelligence would have to question the marketing of AI. Isn’t there enough “artificial” floating around these days?
I like the Babylon Bee…”fake news you can trust”.
The “Intelligence” is artificial, but the data gathering & storage is real…no doubt secure as artificial!
I'm no expert on AI, but I my entire career was spent writing machine controls software, with a wide range of associated functionalities, such as modeling and user interfaces. I had opportunities to see how AI was "trained" to guide agricultural vehicles. But I also never saw any "intelligence" in it. Just massive amounts of data.
Thanks for your insightful perspective on this.