Time in a Vacuum

Great interview with Steve Wozniak:
Steve Wozniak on Apple, Steve Jobs and the Value of a Good Prank

Woz on Artificial Intelligence:

Could you build a robot that could make a cup of coffee?

First, people say, “Well, that sounds simple.” And the answer is: It’ll never happen.

You could come into my house and you might be able to make a cup of coffee. I could go into your house and I might be able to make a cup of coffee. Think of all the steps a computer would have to analyze — walking through your house, trying to figure out where a kitchen might be. If you have a coffee machine, figuring how it fits together. We’d know to open a drawer and look for a filter, because we’ve used coffee machines. We’ve lived a human life.

[Can] a computer create art? You could write programs that make music that sounds okay — it uses the right notes or the right scales — but it wouldn’t be great art. Because you have to judge it. How could a computer judge art — even a painting — if it’s never experienced the human feeling of a breeze on a beach?

You’d almost have to have a robot that grows up. Maybe it could live life a little faster than a human. But it would have to go through a lot of steps we go through to have the same feelings of what’s important in the world. - Knowledge@Wharton

So, do you give up? Nah. It’s probably way to much fun for the people trying to figure these problems out.