Abstract

QUARESMA QUARESMA, Alexandre. Artificial intelligences and the limits of computing. PAAKAT: rev. tecnol. soc. [online]. 2018, vol.8, n.15, pp.69-84.  Epub Sep 01, 2018. ISSN 2007-3607.  https://doi.org/10.32870/pk.a8n15.338.

Much has been heard in the present of artificial intelligences (IA) and intelligent machines, but very little about the limits of computing that make or not possible these same simulations of intelligences in artificial systems. If on the one hand advanced computational technical support, which is to say, the hardware-that actually got faster, smaller and more potent-, on the other, little or nothing advanced the engineering techniques of the programs that make these same work Computer technical supports, i.e. the softwares, as well as the conceptual theories that lie to them, structuring them, which have their origins and genesis. The purpose of this article is to try to clarify the possible misconceptions of mass media, and, ultimately, by the scientists themselves and enthusiasts of IA, namely: the fact of announcing ' to the four Winds ' the eminence of the emergence of systems Cybernetic-Informational really intelligent, pretensionally alive, aware of themselves and also the world that surrounds them, something that definitely does not find echo in factual reality, nor much less still in the current limits of computing.

Keywords : Artificial intelligences (IA); Limits of computing; Technology critique.

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