What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teach...
What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, 'Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried.'
The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.
when the novella ends with Annaas imagination, I am unsatisfied. jax is cute with a robot avatar, like a child with Down's disease. would I raise up such a digient? should digient have sexual desires like human? if we were raising a digient like a child wit...
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This book is certainly on my recommendation list! Before I even started off, I’m already a big fan of Ted Chiang. He is everything I seek for in a modern sci-fi story. After Asimov and so many other clumsy imitators, hard core sci-fi fantasy to me is no lo...
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0 有用 antares 2011-09-18 00:56:32
特德姜还是适合短小精悍的作品…
0 有用 上界司命 2011-09-26 22:18:57
确实太淡
0 有用 吴明士 2012-02-13 23:25:14
@kindle,觉得很像自己喜欢的一部短篇科幻http://escapepod.org/2011/08/26/ep307-soulmates/
0 有用 韩鹿临 2011-09-23 17:21:57
不同于特德姜以往作品,多了很多温情和不可解的成分。淡淡的忧伤和甜蜜。
0 有用 六 2016-04-22 23:50:04
特德姜在我心中落下神坛的一篇,露出了弱点,其他只是单纯三观不合,对那种柔软富有情感的地方感到厌烦