In the interview with Ben Schneiderman, I was particularly surprised by his confident, repeated assertions that computers are just tools, and that they are no more intelligent than wooden pencils. Perhaps due to both movies or to my own research with the advancements made in machine learning, it seems to me that humans are going to keep pushing machines to the limit in terms of their ability to learn and apply knowledge, and I was under the impression that sometime in the future, machines would be able to grow and evolve on their own, much as human brains do. Hearing Ben Schneiderman’s interview, however, I am tempted to wonder if this obsession with continuously making machines more and more human-like is misguided given their possibly limited potential, and if there would be a clear, obvious point at which it was clear that the advancement of AI had hit a ceiling.
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