thedoc wrote:Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Hair dressing; Writing literature; Counselling; Lawyers and judges; deciding what jobs really need doing; writing music worth listening to; performing; child care.
Writing literature and Composing Music are 2 areas that I would question the ability if machines to do well. Certainly a computer could write 4'33", an extremely simple program would do, but when you add the qualifier of being worth listening to, it is eliminated. It would be interesting to have works of literature produced by people and computers, and have a blind critical analysis done of them.
Performing is also a human skill. Imagine a machine trying to be Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan or even A rap star. Additionally no machine could ever write an artistic, meaningful lyric.
A machine has no context to produce literature. It might be programmed to produce doggerel, but that would involve a programmer that IS human ultimately.
Machines might be able to do the donkey work, they can more quickly calculate PI to the nth degree, but no machine could ever understand why it was doing it, nor what it was for.
As usual PhilX has spewed his usual unimaginative exaggeration.