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Bill Gates: AI is the holy grail

12 points by kercker 10y ago

KasianFranks 10y ago
I like calling it Biomimetic Cognition.
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xiphias 10y ago
Shouldn't longevity be the holy grail? I accept that singularity will arrive soon, but I'm alright without it as well. Getting older sucks much more though.
- voidz 10y ago
  Personally I'd consider the end of (a)social media a holy grail. We already have AI, and RI (real intelligence) is something I don't believe humanity will create with technology. Tha tis, not until we know more about our own nature and how it is "sparked", so to speak.
- melling 10y ago
  Wouldn't AI help with that problem, as well as a thousand others? AI is a better tool to help us solve other problems.
- vorotato 10y ago
  We die for a reason, a damn good one. Humanity moves forward one grave at a time.
dmfdmf 10y ago
I know it feels like we are close to creating AI but it seems like nothing happens until there is a breakthrough in understanding mind/consciousness which seems farther away.
- petra 10y ago
  Why do you think so ? if we start with the assumption that AI can look different than human intelligence, maybe there isn't a need for consciousness ? or maybe some very basic form of consciousness like we already have[1] in will suffice ? [1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-become-self-aware/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-b...
  - dmfdmf 10y ago
    > maybe there isn't a need for consciousness? I absolutely agree with that and I guess my comment was not clear. It is common in AI discussions to see the (usually implicit) assumption that to create AI we have to create consciousness which I think is an unwarranted assumption. Nevertheless to the degree that intelligence is an attribute of consciousness, I think we need to understand consciousness at least well enough to recreate that attribute in a computer. Whether doing that requires consciousness or not remains to be seen (we don't know) but I suspect not.

12 points by kercker 10y ago

KasianFranks 10y ago

I like calling it Biomimetic Cognition.

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xiphias 10y ago

Shouldn't longevity be the holy grail? I accept that singularity will arrive soon, but I'm alright without it as well. Getting older sucks much more though.

voidz 10y ago
Personally I'd consider the end of (a)social media a holy grail. We already have AI, and RI (real intelligence) is something I don't believe humanity will create with technology. Tha tis, not until we know more about our own nature and how it is "sparked", so to speak.
melling 10y ago
Wouldn't AI help with that problem, as well as a thousand others? AI is a better tool to help us solve other problems.
vorotato 10y ago
We die for a reason, a damn good one. Humanity moves forward one grave at a time.

dmfdmf 10y ago

I know it feels like we are close to creating AI but it seems like nothing happens until there is a breakthrough in understanding mind/consciousness which seems farther away.

petra 10y ago
Why do you think so ? if we start with the assumption that AI can look different than human intelligence, maybe there isn't a need for consciousness ? or maybe some very basic form of consciousness like we already have[1] in will suffice ? [1]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-become-self-aware/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-b...
- dmfdmf 10y ago
  > maybe there isn't a need for consciousness? I absolutely agree with that and I guess my comment was not clear. It is common in AI discussions to see the (usually implicit) assumption that to create AI we have to create consciousness which I think is an unwarranted assumption. Nevertheless to the degree that intelligence is an attribute of consciousness, I think we need to understand consciousness at least well enough to recreate that attribute in a computer. Whether doing that requires consciousness or not remains to be seen (we don't know) but I suspect not.