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• A reply on Talk: Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

  Apr 1 2011: This is classic, on so many levels, it's unbelievable.

• A comment on Conversation: Is it possible to find empathy through the internet?

  Mar 31 2011: I think ones empathy towards digital communication, or whatever, is limited on a persons ability to express themselves in a written language. If you're able to express yourself well in spoken and written language, I think empathy can be felt.

• A comment on Conversation: What would the next Homo Sapiens look like? What kinds of characteristics would they have?

  Mar 31 2011: Someone noted, that evolution is a ramdom numbers game, so to speak. And unless a deadly virus or some kind of violent force destroys all of mankind except for some unaffected few for genetic reasons, who then continue on life again, breeding all over the place with their specific DNA, evolution isn't really going to happen...our own technology stops that. Humanities evolution is our technology. We'll advance as it advances.

• A reply on Conversation: Artificial Intelligence will supersede Human intelligence

  Mar 31 2011: Karls AI, is the art itself. The art created by the AI, is actually Karls tool to create said artwork. A great quote from your article shows this;
  
  "His paper "Artificial Evolution for Computer Graphics" described the application of genetic algorithms to generate abstract 2D images from complex mathematical formulae, evolved under the guidance of a human." I'd like to point out the last four words.
  
  Evolutionary computation and animal communication are awesome examples of intelligence without language. But not examples of human creativity. I suppose this is my fault for assuming my use of the term intelligence would encompass creativity along with it. Creativity being my argument for machines currently and unlikly within near future be able to surpass (or whatever word you want to use to show machines > humans aka the entire subject of this 'conversation'
  
  Cycl, if there were ever a machine language to come close to human language is probably it. It may even be eventually in some radically different form be what does it. However, Cycl is a classic example of the limitations of widespread reification that learning machine languages suffer from and no human does, and is nicely exampled in both it's own article and what I had written. Cycl is also a communication form...a really really smart one. But it's not much different than bee dancing. As in, it's communication without creativity. It's not that difficult to get a machine to learn. It is currently however impossible to get Cycl to create something like, "Green dreams sleep furiously." Not to mention even comprehend what it could mean.
  
  Case in point, machines are still not at the level of humans, and won't be any time soon, without radical changes. I still have hope for the machine however, someday, we'll get there....they will too.
  
  But don't confuse people here, just because the bee can conjugate, doesn't mean the bee is anything human. Neither is Cycl.

• A reply on Conversation: Artificial Intelligence will supersede Human intelligence

  Mar 31 2011: Thank you, for showing that you didn't actually understand or even fully read what I had written.
  
  Basically, everything I said can come down to a single point, Until a machine can create a sentence/idea such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Godly farts dance in rivers of my purplish blues' On it's own, without any kind of prior art and be able to understand the fact it could do it, without having to reference something it learned before and further discuss said new idea with me and its possible meanings, or where it even came up with the idea on its own. No machine will ever be at the same level of a humans ability. And I cannot possibly agree that simulation of the human mind and "all it's aspects" is possible without radical new machine design/programming.
  
  Those very sentences will mean something different to absolutely everyone who reads them and there are no right or wrong answers. Every human on earth has this innate ability. It's the only real example of creativity. And it is directly related to our real language.
  
  I think machines will get there someday. But for now no matter how much a machine learns, it's just another smart machine, it's nowhere near human, yet.

• A comment on Conversation: Artificial Intelligence will supersede Human intelligence

  Mar 31 2011: This MAY annoy alot of people, or not. But I figured making 5 posts in succession would be ridiculously stupid.
  
  So, because my response to this issue is considerably longer, I suggest please, read my response at the provided link
  
  If it's too much of a hassle for people to read on the web, i will repost here.
  
  Thanks for your time to read in advance...it's long :P
  
  http://berserkerlion.com/tedsponse.htm