[R] My dream ...

Jim Lemon drj|m|emon @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Wed May 13 08:40:49 CEST 2020


Well, let's hope that was my big screw up for today...

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:39 PM peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hans? Try Heinz ;-)
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> Actually listed as a quote _in_ Abby's, originally by Greg Snow, but w/o attribution...
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> -pd
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> > On 13 May 2020, at 02:23 , Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Sorry, it was listed in Hans' email as a reply from you. Far be it
> > from me to speak for someone else.
> >
> > Jim
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> > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:13 AM Abby Spurdle <spurdle.a using gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> Hi Jim,
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> >> I think you've mis-quoted me.
> >> I didn't say that.
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> >> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:10 AM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> 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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