From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 10/15/2024 5:31 AM, Tim Merrigan wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   Some of the other respondents seemed to think you meant making baby   
   humans, I interpreted it as making baby computers.   
      
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