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  1. 🔮🤖 Behold the almighty "Centaur," a groundbreaking endeavor to mimic human thought that only slightly oversells its ambitions. Spoiler alert: it's still just a glorified #calculator with a fancy name. 🙄🤦‍♂️
    insidescientific.com/centaur-a #Centaur #AI #humanthought #technology #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  2. > This effort now involves thousands of researchers, consumes billions of dollars in funding, and has generated a vast literature consisting of both technical and mainstream articles and books. #RayKurzweil’s book How to #CreateAMind: The Secret of #HumanThought Revealed (2013), exemplifies this perspective, speculating about the ‘algorithms’ of the brain, how the brain ‘processes data’, and even how it superficially resembles integrated circuits in its structure.

  3. > Human thought and conduct can only be treated broadly and truly in a mood of tolerant irony.

    Old books like this supply enough interesting one-liners for quote-a-day calendars, or bots.

    I don't want to use "behavior" when thinking of people. Now, in addition to "activity" I'll think of using "conduct." I.A. Richards (another sayings-bot candidate) wrote that behavior is falling down steps activity is getting upstairs.
    #HumanThought #HumanConduct #HumanBehavior