This year’s Edge question is "What do you think about machines that think?" My response is less about their likelihood and more about how we should respond, as a society, if this ever comes to pass. Specifically, it involves naches, the Yiddish term for pride and joy...
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This year’s Edge question [6] is "What do you think about machines that think? [6]" My response [7] is less about their likelihood and more about how we should respond, as a society, if this ever comes to pass. Specifically, it involves naches [8], the Yiddish term for pride and joy...
Read the rest here [7].
Links:
[1] https://www.edge.org/news/%E2%80%9Cnaches%E2%80%9D-from-our-machines
[2] https://www.edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think
[3] http://www.wired.com/
[4] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/samuel_arbesman
[5] http://wrd.cm/1Dcz1TG
[6] http://edge.org/annual-question/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think
[7] http://edge.org/response-detail/26117
[8] http://wordsmith.org/words/naches.html