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the ability to foresee that some things cannot be foreseen is a very necessary capacity
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

It’s hard to make predictions, especially about the future.
- yogi berra

Perils , AI copies musicians: "Every since I was a child, music has thrilled me and moved me to the very core. And every piece that | love feels like it's a direct message from the emotional heart of the human being who composed it. It feels like it is giving me access to their innermost soul.... It feels like there is nothing more human in the world than that expression of music."
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

The touring test - can a machine fool a human into thinking it is human via blinded communication
Weak AI
Strong AI - to the philosopher , it requires creativity

Also , what about consciousness? Cannot be replicated in a machine; in fact we dont even understand how WE are conscious.

Thinking fast and thinking slowly - khanaman
Is EQ part of system 1 thinking fast?

What is intelligence?
There seem to be many intelligences
Consciousness - awareness of self - and self reflection - adaptability - goal setting - changes in plans to achieve the goal seem to be part of intelligence. A knowledge base - deep knowledge about a single less useful thing; = nerd; deep knowledge about a single useful thing = expert; deep knowledge about a lot of things = Genius

Ada lovelace - knew charles dickens (he read her passages of his books on her deathbed!! ) She dies of uterine ca. she was tended by Florence nightingale!!

W Pitts - detroit, hiding from bullies, he hides in a library , reads Russel’s principia mathmatica, he finds a couple of mistakes , is invited by ruseel to come to cambridge - but he’s 12yo!
Later writes with a neurologist a paper on neural networks!!

Alan turing - a mathematician
Step by step calculations m
- He broke / cracked the enigma machine revealing nazi secrets using the “bombe”
- computing machinery and human intelligence ? Can machines think?

Ada Lovelace - george byron’s daughter
Went on the befriend babbage and create the difference engine precursor to computer.
Then the analytical engine , used to weave algebraic equations. She took things so much further, creating the algorithms that led to computing