Both Nolan and Cuaron betray a belief that explicitness can substitute for intelligence, and end up sounding like whiny sensitive teenagers writing in their angst journal.
Here, there is no substitute for emotional intelligence.
While algorithms can decide a lot of things, they cannot substitute for human intelligence, which can factor in the wisdom of experience, context, circumstance, psychology and a whole lot of other factors too, all at once.
It was in 1988 that I first realized, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the U.S. government is "the emperor wearing no clothes," ignorant of most of what goes on in the world, substituting ideology for intelligence, and expensive, largely useless contracting and technology for thinking.
Our inclination to assume that computers provide a sufficient substitute for our own intelligence has made us all too eager to hand important work over to software and accept a subservient role for ourselves.
Enter Matt McMullen, the inventor behind RealDoll, who promises a filthy utopia where sex dolls with artificial intelligence can substitute not just for the body, but for the mind.
If an American visiting or calling an embassy turns up on a recording, the F.B.I. is required by law to remove the American's name from intelligence reports, substituting the words "U.S. person".
Turing was in effect endorsing Descartes' sufficiency condition, at least for intelligence, while substituting written for oral linguistic behavior.
We can do a lot of things technologically, but there is no substitute, no substitute, for human intelligence and that has been one of the failures of the agency, I think, especially since the demise of the Soviet Union.... Q.
Superior wonks whose intelligence is a substitute for belief, with immense pride in their acumen.' In Mailer 's universe the replacement of belief with pride is a deadly sin.
