From: Amara D. Angelica (amara@kurzweilai.net)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 08:18:55 MST
Aleksei Riikonen said:
> I don't currently know
> whether Kurzweil has claimed that the auditory system has
> been fully reverse-engineered.
Ray has not made any such absurd statement. Note that the alleged statements
in the blog are not sourced and are not verbatim quotes.
Amara D. Angelica
Editor and research director, KurzweilAI.net
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> Subject: Re: Kurzweil critique
>
> On 11/5/07, Michael Anissimov <michaelanissimov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On my blog, someone anonymous posted a long rebuttal
> >
> (http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/?p=606#comment-102290)
> > of Kurzweil's ideas that I think some people may be interested in.
> > Note that just because I post it doesn't mean I agree or
> disagree with
> > any specific claims therein. Enjoy!
>
> Wow. When there isn't experimental evidence of a hypothetical
> piece of technology having been built and working, the
> technology is crackpottery. I wish someone had told me
> earlier that *every* piece of technology that isn't built
> yet, is crackpottery! End all funding for engineering
> research! Don't believe the crackpot claims that next year
> new computers, mobile phones, cars etc will be available!
>
> Also I'm sad to learn that Antonio Damasio has made some
> really foolish comments on the topic of AI (assuming what the
> poster says he has said is true -- this might not be so).
>
> On the topic of auditory systems having been
> reverse-engineered, I think it's correct to say that that
> hasn't been done (to the fullest) yet. So if the poster is
> correct when claiming that Kurzweil says otherwise, then
> Kurzweil would be wrong here. But I don't currently know
> whether Kurzweil has claimed that the auditory system has
> been fully reverse-engineered.
>
> --
> Aleksei Riikonen - http://www.iki.fi/aleksei
>
>
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