From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 10/11/2024 11:11 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > Make a baby?   
   >   
      
   A robot computer manufacturing plant?  Or even just computer chip plant?   
      
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