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On 10/11/2024 11:11 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> On 10/11/24 7:48 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>> Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com> wrote:
>>> I don't think "human-level machine intelligence" is meaningful,
>>> because computation to carry out tasks and cognition to further the
>>> existence of a living organism aren't commensurable.
>>
>> I'm not convinced of that.  Nobody has come up with a task that a
>> person could do but that no computer could ever do.  There are tasks
>> that it's been proven computers can't do, but no person has proven
>> able to do them either.
> 
> Make a baby?
> 

A robot computer manufacturing plant?  Or even just computer chip plant?

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