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I would go further and say that the visual cortex and the rest of the brain are really just feature extractors for the body to use. And without a lifetime of em
by erikpukinskis 10y ago
I would go further and say that the visual cortex and the rest of the brain are really just feature extractors for the body to use. And without a lifetime of embodied experience, neither can "vision" be solved nor can "general AI" be realized.
It's impossible to really see something unless you have the opportunity to interact with it (or things like it). It's impossible to understand something unless you have the opportunity to interact with it (or things like it). Without interaction there can be no intelligence. The best you can do is have an intelligent being (the human researcher) train a computer to mimic intelligent action in a constrained environment. But there is no path from there to general intelligence without interaction.
And there is no interaction without a body of some shape. The body can be virtual, and needn't look like a human body, but there needs to be a set of actuators which cause realtime changes in the input space.
- unlikelymordant 10y ago> Without interaction there can be no intelligence. And there is no interaction without a body of some shape. I disagree fully. Can a person born quadriplegic not be considered intelligent simply because they can't interact with things? They can interact by communicating, same as a computer can.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoA quadriplegic has a body, they can move their head, mouth, eyes, etc, and those things can influence the world. That constitutes a perception action loop which is a basic requirement for intelligence. An AI without any actuators is more like a fully paralyzed person. A baby which was born totally paralyzed would in fact be profoundly retarded and they would be unable to communicate or form anything resembling intelligence. See http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-seriously-creepy-two-kitten-experiment-1442107174 http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-seriously-creepy-two-kitten-exper... An AI with vocal cords and a microphone in the real world has a body.