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... I ... the ... since ... her recognition you describe ... and metaphors and a higher level understanding ... of the things that many people think are uniquely human ... they can't be ... mimicked by machines you make the argument the book that in fact ... the differences between that sort of biological thinking and ... making machine ... calculating are not that ... different will not all I mean turning fifty years ago ... to approve the loan number of parents and a lot of work showing the universality of ... computation to understand the method ... we can get computers to do it ... the take lots and how many people heard of ... Watson which is the jeopardy playing computer ... a jeopardy the pretty subtle game involves metaphors and tons of families and jokes ... and riddles up ... and you have to also be knowledgeable and basically everything ... and doesn't ... want to not only understands the convoluted language in the jeopardy clarity ... the guidance knowledge re reading all of with the pedi ... that the knowledge of how was that encoded in somewhat special logic language but this time ... you can read natural language documents with a few Frederick Opinion Alex ... ambiguous sometimes I read something it's likely have better reachable other entities to resolve and BQ these ... it did all that ... can get a higher score than the best team and players put together ... in other ways in which Watson's not yet operating in the human levels ... but the technique it uses ... Mrs even realize by the IBM scientists put together because ... they actually didn't deal with it the regions of the really interesting language ... that dealing with ... this isn't to combine different is that the candidate the architecture together ... that the real systems are dealing with language use the same technique ... mathematically very similar to what the brain is actually doing ... and the success of something like Watson which is this really ... exciting ... it's a testament that we are making real progress in getting computers to do similar things to what the brain ... is doing ... so how long does it take before computers can basically do everything that the human brain us ... well ... he won threshold is that it's again ... set by Alan Turing in nineteen fifty to find a way in which we can ... say that a computer's operating acumen levels and ... Turing test ... yet the human judge interview ... the computer ... and a human baby several the beach ... and if he or she the judge human touch ... I can't tell who's who ... wishes to compete in which is the human race to the computers of half time ... in every yet Giants's run by below her foundation ... and the humans EyePet about the ... human this ... in the country visit down here but they getting better every year ... you just look at the ratings which are getting better the crossovers about twenty twenty nine ... for other reasons that's been my ... prediction ... all along that computers will ... be able to deal with the full range of of human intelligence which I think this changes the present ... but twenty twenty nine ... but this too cabbie it's I would say one ... ah it will that necessarily be more powerful ... because they wanted and actually is not understanding human language is well with humans in the civil ... and how does it get a better school in the best humans put together ... that's because of combined would have its its level of understanding with the with the total recall the computers ... can you in Eichengreen competing to action figure to three years ... will a problem that they will have doubled in size than that time ... at a bigger problem is that I'm like you but I would remember very much of what I've read ... a Watson sat down to Gurdev Leander read all of which the PDF ... in a couple of weeks and remembers all of them can call any of those facts in three seconds so it's ... inherently very powerful combination when are really can read ... acumen levels ... of ... IBM is I went with Nuance projections his company to create a medical ... of lots in the Blue beetle medical literature ... what we have this notion of consciousness ... which we think of something that is ... think of the something that is uniquely him ... what is in your concept in your understanding of how the brain works what is consciousness ... and will computers at ... well what I talk about that every for small to philosophical ... question ... and that itself is not obvious in the top railing why its philosophical and scientific ... you can't build the cars is its effect is a machine you slide into the in the green light goes on as it always does when Scott does this I ... know this was not content ... with that building in some philosophical assumptions so don't sell would wanna make sure that squeaking ... by logical neurotransmitters it wasn't the green light wooden going to end and that ... of the philosopher would wanted to have a model of itself he wouldn't care ... if it's running on a computer or biological such great but ... you have to have some model of its own thinking ... that's closest to my view ... but it is ultimately a leap of faith as to what you consider consciousness ... because as a conceptual gap between consciousness which is a ... synonym for subject of the the ... and science which is a synonym for objectivity ... however my own ... so believe faith is that it's an emergent property of a complex system like the human being ... and that if you have a system that is as intelligent human and really is convincing ... in its emotional responses ... in convinces us that can make us laugh and cry and that's what I'm saying will happen but twenty twenty nine ... then my my belief is that this conscience ... and still get mad at us if we don't believe ... its contents and we want that to happen can still be very smart ... it was almost double the motions ... emotion is not some set of sideshow of this intelligence and then that the motion effect ... of motion is are these high level ... concepts and the most sophisticated thing ... we do being funny ... being sexy being loving ... these are very complicated and intelligent behaviors ... if the cutting edge of human intelligence that is what ... it takes action to pass the Turing test ...