century science fiction. Sometime mass media, taking advantage of interests and fears of the society, tends to provoke clamor around researches about A.I.
self and own actions, nothing is but a product of our mental processes, that correspond to electro-chemical stimulation produced by the activation of neurons, we are authorized to think that the knowledge can be generated inside a machine as well. Anyway, considering our actual skills, imagine the situation is kind of hard, or better impossible. What actually astonishes is how human conscience could start from a simple, even if complex, system of electronic signals transmission. The imagine of an artificial intelligence that emulates all the characteristics of our brains, even overtake all the human abilities, well that imagine usually evokes irritation rather than enthusiasm.
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Often, computers are talked as being so intelligent to be able to beat every human being in a chess match, but something must be explained about this intelligence. Computers are nothing but translators of signs in some other signs depending on whom they can interpret a question and give a pertinent answer. We can imagine that someday, due to their more and more sophistication, computers will develop a form of knowledge. As in principle a neuron can be simulated with convenient math functions and the human brain nothing is but a huge number of neurons, it is possible that the physical structure of brain is reproducible or can somehow be emulated by computers.
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The eventuality that calculators can do better than assist our intelligence is translated in the wrong conviction that such a technical sophistication would turn human into nits. Is like if
If knowledge, as consciousness of the
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