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This subsystem acts like the eyes and ears and mouth and hands of the
computer.
Basically, it provides a way for the
computer
to interact with its environment.
The CPU, or central processing unit, is the brains of the whole
computer.
Just like your brain doesn't take up your whole body, the CPU doesn't take up the whole computer, but it runs the show all the same.
Your
computer'
s CPU is one heck of a multitasker!
But human programs take up a lot of space and contain a lot of unnecessary information to a computer, so they are compiled and made smaller and stored in bits of ones and zeros in memory.
So, just the simple task of clicking your mouse means visiting all of the critical components of your
computer'
s architecture: peripherals, the basic input-output system, the CPU, programs, and memory, and not one gremlin.
Alongside traditional warfare, our future will include cyberwarfare, remotely fighting our enemies through the use of a new class of weapons, including
computer
viruses and programs to alter the enemy's ability to operate.
As a second example, imagine an allied group of nations cooperatively infiltrating the
computer
systems of an enemy nation's nuclear warship.
The
computer
programmers who wrote the code?
They severed her head, put it on top of her
computer
with a similar note.
So I use
computer
models to calculate the kind of atmosphere a planet would need to have a suitable climate for water and life.
See, I'm a
computer
scientist by background and not someone in the creative arts.
These seemingly crude methods of search and retrieval are, in fact, so useful that they are applied in
computer
models to obtain optimal solutions from decentralized elements, working randomly and exchanging simple information.
But the
computer
has fundamentally changed the way we think about tools because computation is dynamic.
This isn't just a defect in your eyes; if you can see, then optical illusions can trick you with your glasses on or with this paper or
computer
screen right up in your face.
Can a
computer
write poetry?
You think about it for a minute, and you suddenly have a bunch of other questions like: What is a
computer?
One of them is written by a human, and the other one's written by a
computer.
Alan Turing believed that if a
computer
was able to have a to have a text-based conversation with a human, with such proficiency such that the human couldn't tell whether they are talking to a
computer
or a human, then the
computer
can be said to have intelligence.
You're presented with a poem, you don't know whether it was written by a human or a
computer
and you have to guess.
Well, Turing said that if a
computer
could fool a human 30 percent of the time that it was a human, then it passes the Turing test for intelligence.
According to the logic of the Turing test, can a
computer
write poetry?
So Gertrude Stein, who's a human, is able to write a poem that fools a majority of human judges into thinking that it was written by a
computer.
Therefore, according to the logic of the reverse Turing test, Gertrude Stein is a
computer.
Or that Gertrude Stein is more of a
computer
than William Blake? (Laughter) These are questions I've been asking myself for around two years now, and I don't have any answers.
So that when we ask, "Can a
computer
write poetry?" we're also asking, "What does it mean to be human and how do we put boundaries around this category?
Of course, this doesn't mean that William Blake was actually more human or that Gertrude Stein was more of a
computer.
So my final insight is that the computer, more or less, works like a mirror that reflects any idea of a human that we show it.
More than any other bit of technology, the
computer
is a mirror that reflects any idea of the human we teach it.
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