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MIT debate: Will a 'conscious' machine ever be built?

”意識を持った”機械は作ることができるかーMITでの議論

Kurzweilはタンパク質のfolding（折り曲げ）が最近コンピュータでシミュレーション可能となった。これまでは不可能とされたことだが、機械が最終的に何ができるかを予測することは不可能とコメント、MITの学者はこれに反論。
December 01, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- The question of whether machines will be capable of human intelligence is ultimately a matter for philosophers to take up and not something that scientists can answer, an inventor and a computer scientist agreed during a debate last night at MIT.

Kurzweil noted that recently a computer simulated protein folding, which is something that was believed to be impossible for a machine to do, suggesting that it's difficult to predict what machines will be capable of doing.