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Emergent properties
Never been a big fan of this idea myself. A lot of people lost a lot of money in the belief that vast profits would be an "emergent property" of the Internet. Not that you can't make money out of the Internet like you can make money out of pretty much anything else, but there's nothing magical about it.
Mind you, it would be cool if there were!
As others here have (sort of) suggested, the fuss about AI comes from the "Artificial" side of it. I don't believe someone in a white coat is going to throw a switch and create "intelligence" where there was none before - personally I believe it was already there (at least in the sense of "consciousness" which tends to get mixed up with "intelligence" in this sort of discussion).
Computers can already do a lot of smart things. To a large extent this is because they are programmed by smart people.
And the reverse, of course... :blah:
Never been a big fan of this idea myself. A lot of people lost a lot of money in the belief that vast profits would be an "emergent property" of the Internet. Not that you can't make money out of the Internet like you can make money out of pretty much anything else, but there's nothing magical about it.
Mind you, it would be cool if there were!
As others here have (sort of) suggested, the fuss about AI comes from the "Artificial" side of it. I don't believe someone in a white coat is going to throw a switch and create "intelligence" where there was none before - personally I believe it was already there (at least in the sense of "consciousness" which tends to get mixed up with "intelligence" in this sort of discussion).
Computers can already do a lot of smart things. To a large extent this is because they are programmed by smart people.
And the reverse, of course... :blah: