Computers are able to do more and more things that in former times were thought to be the sole province of human minds. Deep Blue<\/i> beat Garry Kasparov way back in 1997, and since then the trend has continued, as the rising tide of Moore’s law claims an ever wider swath of computational challenges.<\/p>\n
It looks as though driving cars is going to be taken over by computers pretty soon, and computers are still getting faster. And that leads to an interesting question: What sorts of things remain essentially human, in the sense that they remain definitively outside the grasp of artificial computation?<\/p>\n
Is some list being compiled somewhere of firmly inimitable human mental capabilities? I would guess that such a list is being compiled by somebody somewhere, but I am not sure where to begin to look.<\/p>\n
Any suggestions how to search for it? Or maybe that’s a job for an AI. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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