In "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil, the guy scared me by saying that computers will one day be able to learn, make mistakes, and adapt to their environment - but how can they if they have no reason to adapt? Natural selection requires some motivation - - or just good programming? He also says computers can be creative, which has been, to me, always a sense of a human's freewill... is any of this possible?? I'm scared but reaaaaaaaally fascinated....
2007-07-23
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