"The appropriately programmed computer with the right inputs and outputs would thereby have a mind in exactly the same sense human beings have minds" John Searle (1999).
The Geico commercial in the clip above is a great spoof on the whole area of artificial intelligence and robotics. What is quite humbling is that the same causal calculus used in machine learning has been very useful to me in developing causal models of social systems (for example: here, here, here and here).
In spite of Geico's on-target spoof, artificial intelligence and machine learning are topics drawing wide attention. Stanford University offered an on-line course that has so far drawn 58,000 students from around the world (here).
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