Robots Will Steal Your Job #5: Intelligence

Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK Audiobook

What does it mean to compare machine intelligence to human intelligence, and does it even matter when it comes to the workplace?

Chapter Index

00:00 | Intro

00:25 | Chapter Begins

06:26 | Outro

References

1. The Chinese room is a thought experiment presented by John Searle. It supposes that there is a program that gives a computer the ability to carry on an intelligent conversation in written Chinese. If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese. However, the English speaker would not be able to understand the conversation. Similarly, Searle concludes, a computer executing the program would not understand the conversation either.
   http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
2. A ‘facepalm’ is the physical gesture of placing one’s hand flat across one’s face or lowering one’s face into one’s hand or hands. The gesture is found in many cultures as a display of frustration, disappointment, embarrassment, shock or surprise. It has been popularised as an Internet meme based on an image of the character Captain Jean-Luc Picard performing the gesture in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “DéjàQ”.
   http://picardfacepalm.com/
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facepalm
3. Intelligence Without Reason, Rodney A. Brooks, 1991. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
   http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/AIM-1293.pdf
4. On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines, Jeff Hawkins, 2004; The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence , and the Future of the Human Mind, Marvin Minsky, 2006.

Attributions

• Chapter Text and comment section: Chapter 5: Intelligence | Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK
• Theme song: The Freeharmonic Orchestra – RoboHobo
• Album art adapted by: Redd Spinks

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