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Jan Sand wrote: ↑May 30th, 2018, 5:43 pm
Although the patterns of nerve response seem similar to the automatic stimulation response within a digital setup, neuron responses are proportional to intensity and are affected by input from preconditioned secondary sources, as far as I know. So it is not just a simple matter of digital in and output. These preconditions come from genetic and experience sources so I cannot believe it is merely a simple dynamic. I have neither the background nor the pattern experience to properly judge or analyse the possibilities so I can only guess that some kind of matrix understanding is necessary.
You could have dominoes of different sizes, some needing more hits from smaller ones to be toppled, and sure you'd need more dominoes than we have neurons (plus glial cells which also have to do with intelligence). But regardless of the complexity, once there is determinism, you just have a lot of stuff inevitably'falling'. The word intelligence seems off. I suppose something like computational power, like we refer to calculators or something, could be used as a label.
We, in situ, also compelled, may find the word intelligence fitting, but that's just qualia.
I concur that, if time is a single fourth dimension as Einstein indicated and our travel from the past to the future is an illusion, then the future is as fixed as the past and the present is merely a point of view. But some very fine thinkers have examined the nature of quantum theory and turned our whole existence into Schrödinger's cat. The idea that an observer could instantly and arbitrarily create whole new universes does seem fetched rather further than I can accept but if time were not one dimension but two or more, then all these so-called "other" universes already exist and are not individual universes but merely a much more complex variety of this one with an almost infinite possibility of various paths through it. I can barely visualize some of the aspects of a simple four dimensional universe and a universe of about eleven dimensions, as brane theory seems to require, are completely outside my abilities of imagination. As J.B.S. Haldane pointed out, the universe is not only queerer than we think, but queerer than we can think.
If you are looking for a definition, then it is easier. A one-line sentence will cover it. But the meaning and idea behind that term is vast.
It's really an interesting area, for a technical and non-technical guy. The amount of advancements that are happening in the AI field is mind-blowing. If you search online daily, you may find new things that are happening on a daily basis. So to understand thoroughly about AI, you have to have thirst for continuous learning.
We have a built in preconception of what Time is. We instinctively believe that there is some separate Phenomenon in Physics that we call Time. We believe that this Time Phenomenon is continuously running and always has been running in the background of everything that happens in the Universe. But this is a mistaken Belief and has been disproved by modern theories of Physics and especially by Special Relativity and by Quantum Field Theory. These theories have shown that Time is nothing more than Relative relationships between Objects and Processes. There is no Absolute Time even in Physical Space. The Time that we use is not Absolute Time, but rather it is always relative to some Reference Physical Process. References are things like the Number of rotations of the hand on a mechanical Stop Watch, the Number of Rotations of the Earth on its axis, or the Number of Oscillations of a Cesium Atomic Clock. Each of these References will have their own accuracy specifications with the Cesium Atomic Clock being the most accurate. There are new Optical Clocks coming on line that are supposedly more Accurate than the Cesium Atomic Clock, but I will stick with the decades "Tried and True" Cesium Atomic Clock for this discussion. Logically, Science has used the Cesium Atomic Clock as the Reference for all other References. But the Cesium Clock is just a Physical Process, so we have all the other References being Relative Processes to the Cesium Atomic Clock Process.
The upshot of all this is that Science does not use or know how to measure any kind of Absolute Time Phenomenon. It is always the Relative behavior of Physical Processes. This is the key to understanding that there is actually no such thing as an Absolute Time in Science or in the Universe. Science has discovered that Time as we think of it does not Exist. The Relative Time between Physical Processes is completely Local to the Physical Processes themselves. So we can say that before the Big Bang when there was supposedly no Matter, no Energy, and no Space, that there could not be any kind of Relative Time that was even Possible. Therefore, there was no Infinite Past, no Million Year Past, and not even a One Second Past, before the Big Bang. We actually should not even call the Relationship between Physical Processes, Relative Time. It is just a Relationship of the relative Numbers that are counted by the References. We can take the next step in this analysis and say there is no such thing as Time without specifying Absolute or Relative. A disappointing thing about the Non Existence of Time is that there is no possibility of Time Travel because there is nothing to go Back in and nothing to go Forward in.
Now let's consider Time from a Special Relativity point of view. First of all, Time is Not the Fourth Dimension of Space in spite of what the Science Snake Oil book writers say. Time plus the three dimensions of space form a mathematical four dimensional Manifold. Time is always given the index 0, and the three indexes of Space are given as 1, 2, and 3. If Time was considered to be the Fourth Dimension it would have been given an Index of 4 when they first formulated the equations. Time is simply a parameter that describes a particular behavior of Physical Matter. One of the most important results of Special Relativity is that Time slows down in a moving Frame. Even Cesium Atomic Clocks slow down. So a Cesium Clock on board the Space Station will run slower than a Cesium Atomic Clock on the ground. The knee jerk reaction to this is to say Time has slowed down. But all we know is that the Cesium Atomic Clock on the Station will register a smaller Number of Oscillations than the same Atomic Clock on the ground. But this only means that the Cesium Atomic Oscillations are slowed and it says nothing about what some Time concept is actually doing. It is the Relationship between the Number of Oscillations on the Station with the Number of Oscillations on the ground that is important. It is results like this that forced Scientists to realize that there is no Absolute Time Clock driving the Universe. If there was, then it would be impossible for Time to slow down on the Station and not on the ground. They realized that Time was not an independently Real Phenomenon that exists in the Universe. Time is always the result of Relationships between different Physical Processes. Without Physical Processes, Time does not even make any sense.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing at a breakneck speed. Human intelligence is currently being simulated, extended, and expanded via new technological applications and systems. With the advancement of AI services and the advancement of simulations of human cognition and thinking information processes, AI has gotten a lot of interest in a lot of different disciplines. As a result, industries like robotics, medical treatment, manufacturing, environmental protection, and network development are gradually adopting it. AI has become a top trend in practically every business, not only global technology corporations, due to its allure and disruption. Furthermore, as science and technology advance, AI applications will continue to appear in a rising number of areas of daily life.
Around the world, a digital transformation wave has swept through all sectors of life. Global businesses have learned that embracing new information technology is critical to increasing business optimization, industrial upgrading, and value generation. In this way, the potential of AI as a crucial enabling technology in terms of processing power, algorithms, and data is being shown.
User07 wrote: ↑June 6th, 2022, 7:43 am
Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing at a breakneck speed. Human intelligence is currently being simulated, extended, and expanded via new technological applications and systems. With the advancement of AI services and the advancement of simulations of human cognition and thinking information processes, AI has gotten a lot of interest in a lot of different disciplines. As a result, industries like robotics, medical treatment, manufacturing, environmental protection, and network development are gradually adopting it. AI has become a top trend in practically every business, not only global technology corporations, due to its allure and disruption. Furthermore, as science and technology advance, AI applications will continue to appear in a rising number of areas of daily life.
Around the world, a digital transformation wave has swept through all sectors of life. Global businesses have learned that embracing new information technology is critical to increasing business optimization, industrial upgrading, and value generation. In this way, the potential of AI as a crucial enabling technology in terms of processing power, algorithms, and data is being shown.
Global Businesses are being Brainwashed into thinking they need this AI technology by Aggressive and Hyper Exaggerating Marketing departments. They have to instill a sense of Urgency so they can sell more product. To bolster this they also like to write stories about how the new AI is SCARY. Give me a break.