A fascinating WSJ article (Attempting to Code the Human Brain) begins with the following statement:
“Somewhere, in a glass
building several miles outside of San Francisco, a computer is imagining what a
cow looks like.
Its software is
visualizing cows of varying sizes and poses, then drawing crude digital
renderings, not from a collection of photographs, but rather from the
software's "imagination."”
Interestingly, today's NYTIMES carries an op-ed by David Brooks titled
'What Machines Can't Do'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/opinion/brooks-what-machines-cant-do.html
Interestingly, today's NYTIMES carries an op-ed by David Brooks titled
'What Machines Can't Do'
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/opinion/brooks-what-machines-cant-do.html
Meanwhile, Martin Wolf of the FT has a very interesting
piece on a similar topic:
'If robots divide us, they will conquer'