Can a machine know?
When we think of a ‘machine’ in the context of knowledge, what immediately springs to mind is a computer. We do not really associate this question with a coffee machine, although it can of course, due to a chip, ‘know’ that when we press a green button we want an espresso. We don’t really think of a car, although these days it can for example adjust the temperature of the seat to the body temperature of the passenger. This is due to an inbuilt computer. And a computer, to keep it simple, is nothing more than a machine manipulating information according to given instructions. What matters, perhaps, is that with the acceleration of technological development over the recent years that manipulation occurs at ever increasing speeds and more sophisticated levels. With the emergence and development of new computing ideas such as NNP (Neural Network Processing) or reinforcement learning, we are nearing to a stage, well described in science fiction movies,......
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