[R] My dream ...

[peter dalgaard]

Hans? Try Heinz ;-)

Actually listed as a quote _in_ Abby's, originally by Greg Snow, but w/o attribution...

-pd  



> On 13 May 2020, at 02:23 , Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, it was listed in Hans' email as a reply from you. Far be it
> from me to speak for someone else.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:13 AM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Jim,
>> 
>> I think you've mis-quoted me.
>> I didn't say that.
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Abby Spurdle:
>>> In my opinion the advantage of computers is not Artificial
>>> Intelligence, but rather Artificial Patience (most AI that I have seen
>>> is really doing a bunch of what I would consider to be boring, really
>>> fast so people don't have to).  Leave the Intelligence to the people.
>>> 
>>> Abby's response contains a complaint that is often directed at
>>> technical advances. So what if we can devise a way to perform some
>>> boring task rapidly? I answer that it allows us to delegate the boring
>>> task to the machine and proceed with the integration of the results.
>>> We run the risk of Douglas Adams' delightful result that we cannot
>>> understand, but nearly all of the "big" scientific endeavors stand
>>> upon the shoulders of machines doing boring tasks whose duration at
>>> human speed would see us all out. My idea of AI is a sort of teamwork
>>> between the error-prone synthesis of man and the precise analysis of
>>> machine, not a struggle for dominance  of one or the other.
>>> 
>>> Jim
>>> 
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