Human is the awkward liminal phase between animal and machine

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1302

First human spacecraft to approach Yuggoth, that strange dark orb at the very rim of our solar system, in less than a month.

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Considered under the most general point of view, the essential object of the machine being to calculate, according to the laws dictated to it, the values of numerical coefficients which it is then to distribute appropriately on the columns which represent the variables, it follows that the interpretation of formulae and of results is beyond its province, unless indeed this very interpretation be itself susceptible of expression by means of the symbols which the machine employs. Thus, although it is not itself the being that reflects, it may yet be considered as the being which executes the conceptions of intelligence.

Gadsimtu pirms Tjūringa, izcēlums mans.

1653

Somehow I hadn’t noticed this before. In your face, logic.

1946

Deep learning systems can autonomously learn to play video games, they successfully compete with humans in IQ tests, they excel at image and speech recognition, they invent hypotheses and successfully test them, they are curious and potentially capable of efficient self-improvement.

And it turns out they see the world like this. This is eldritch even by my standards.