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    Default Re: Six scenarios for a world without work

    Quote Originally Posted by deuterio12 View Post
    You know what is not a toy? Google search alghorytm. It already is pretty smart to be able to dig through millions of sites and find a nice answer to your question. In less than a second.
    Brute force mass-parallel searching isn't a sign of artificial intelligence. What makes the google search interesting is not that it has a gazillion processors doing basic string matching in parallel, it is how it determines value and relevance, and while certainly a stroke of genius (rank a page's importance based on the number of other pages that link to it - a concept they borrowed from scientific papers), the algorithm (note spelling) itself is not, nor does it intend to be "intelligent". It literally is just the same algorithm that any text editor uses when you search on your own computer, just scaled up.

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    But really, the important lesson here is this: Rather than making assumptions that don't fit with the text and then complaining about the text being wrong, why not just choose different assumptions that DO fit with the text?
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