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Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Watson versus Robin Williams
The massive amount of cultural or semantic information stored in a human brain is readily and appropriately accessible in the right contexts. What are these contexts, and how does the brain identify them? The key to this mechanism is likely the vague and fuzzy logic our brains…
Data gets the joke seven years later
To take an illustrative fictional example, in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Data finally gets a bad joke a full seven years after hearing it: Data: Ha, ha, ha! I get it. Ha, ha, ha! I get it. Geordi La Forge: You get what? Data: When you said to Commander Riker…
Machines remember jokes but don't get them
This science fiction example captures one of the salient differences between human and machine intelligence. Humans get jokes within milliseconds but might not remember them for seven years. Data remembers the joke for seven years, but it also takes him that long to get it…
Jokes require living a human life
Jokes are bits of knowledge that can only be acquired through living a life as a member of the species Homo sapiens. The Architect in The Matrix possessed truly God-like omniscience. But even the Architect did not seem to have much of a sense of humor.
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Not-two with my underpants
When I came to I was standing beside the bath, with no recollection of how I had managed to get there. Nor did I have any idea what to do next. Drying myself proved impossible because I couldn’t figure out what was me and what was not. Perhaps hell has its own unio mystica. The…