[LINK] SBS: The Age of Big Data

[Roger Clarke]

At 14:18 +1100 6/1/14, Jim Birch wrote:
>It's interesting that the AI dream from circa 1950 of creating a rational
>intelligent conceptualising machine - epitomised by 2001's HAL 9000
>computer - has fallen away and we now attempt high level "intelligence"
>tasks with neural networks and big data.  This parallels the change from
>thinking of the brain as mind - the cogito ergo sum persona - to seeing the
>brain as a massively parallel association processor, with consciousness
>being the just the tip of that particular iceberg, albeit the fun part.
>
>We don't imagine we can "understand" what a neural network or a multifactor
>regression discovers - the result is the result.  Similarly, quoting SF
>writer David Zindell: If the brain were so simple we could understand it,
>we would be so simple we couldn't.

The naivete, and the failure, and the dangers, of the 'hard AI' 
movement, including the neural nets approach, is attacked in ss. 2.1, 
2.2 here:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-I.html#C

My words are different from Jim's, but we're mostly in the same direction.


The four articles on drones are all now in review draft form.

Many thanks to the several who've provided comments off-list on paper 1!

And thanks in advance for constructively negative feedback on any and 
all of the following:

1.  Understanding the Drone Epidemic
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-E.html

2.  What Drones Inherit from Their Ancestors
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-I.html

3.  The Regulation of Civilian Drones' Impacts on Public Safety
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-PS.html

4.  The Regulation of Civilian Drones' Applications
     to the Surveillance of People
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Drones-BP.html


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