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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | [[Cueball]]'s laptop smugly crows to its owner about how computers have proven their intellectual superiority over humans yet again. | + | [[Cueball]]'s laptop smugly crows to its owner about how computers have proven their intellectual superiority over humans yet again. Earlier this year, a Google artificial intelligence beat the world's best Go player at the game. Go is a very complex and deep game, so this can seem alarming at first glance. |
− | However, Cueball seems too focused on his | + | However, Cueball seems too focused on his phone to care. He remains nonchalant in the face of this news, and suggests that computers learn next to become "too cool to care about stuff" themselves. The computer gets to work preparing to outdo humans at not caring. However, by expending the physical effort to set up the algorithm, it proves that it cares about reaching this goal, a contradiction that Cueball points out. Cueball further rubs it in by coolly stating that he doesn't even have to try to act the way he acts. |
− | + | Go is possible for a computer to work apart due to the rules of the game and its win and loss states allowing a neural network algorithm to evolve, but this computer presents yet another [[1263: Reassuring|reassuring parable]] that there are some things humans will always be able to do better. | |
− | The title text elaborates on the hypothetical paradox of computers trying not to care about stuff. | + | The title text elaborates on the hypothetical paradox of computers trying not to care about stuff. When a neural network receives positive feedback, it means that the program has put work into improving at its task. When the end goal is not to care, ergo not to put in effort, this feedback would have to be sarcasm: the use of irony to mock or to convey contempt. |
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