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From: Tim Merrigan <tppm@rr.ca.com>
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Subject: Re: Things I never thought would appear
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 05:46:45 -0700
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On 10/15/2024 5:31 AM, Tim Merrigan wrote:
> 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?
> 

Some of the other respondents seemed to think you meant making baby 
humans, I interpreted it as making baby computers.

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