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   Evelyn C. Leeper to Keith F. Lynch   
   Re: Things I never thought would appear   
   11 Oct 24 14:11:06   
   
   From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/11/24 7:48 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > Gary McGath  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.   
      
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