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Lindsay Hotmire's avatar

This is the most powerful line of your entire brilliant piece: "I think we’re going to discover that it’s impossible for a machine to replicate human intelligence if that machine lacks any experience in the world in which humans exist." The question boils down to this, I guess: Can we replicate human experience with inputted knowledge alone? My answer: I think not, for the human experience requires EMBODIMENT. This is precisely what you're getting at in your article.

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Jeff Goins's avatar

OMG. This is terrible and crazy. I am trying to teach my kids that just because you Google a thing and find an answer, this does not mean it is correct. I am also trying, with far less success, to convince the average adult I encounter that this does not constitute "research." I fear the arrival of general artificial intelligence may arrive not so much because the machines get smarter but because the humans get more stupid.

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