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Note: Edition No: 32 is an addendum to Edition No: 31 and can be read in conjunction with Edition No: 7 Semiotic Sign Machines: Computers.
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“Given the pervasiveness of AGI talk in business, government, and the media, one could not be blamed for assuming that the meaning of the term is established and agreed upon. However, the opposite is true” …
— Melanie Mitchell
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The Artificial General Intelligence Grand Narrative: Part 2
Man and the Machine - Addendum
Please read the debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence [ LINK ].
“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence”…
— Jean Baudrillard
“I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing”…
— John Searle
“Throughout Finnegans Wake, Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the Tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumptions, or what Bacon calls the rein of the idols”…
— Marshall McLuhan
Footnote:
The Future of Artificial Intelligence- Melanie Mitchell : Santa Fe Institute [ LINK ]
Towers of Babel and Towers of Sleep - AI, the Four Idols of the Mind and the Grand Narrative [ LINK ]