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I always like to use flight as an analogy. When we tried to copy nature, we failed pretty hard but when we came up with our own way it worked out best. Computer
by jryan49 8y ago
I always like to use flight as an analogy. When we tried to copy nature, we failed pretty hard but when we came up with our own way it worked out best. Computers are not like human brains. We are in the process of inventing a new kind of intelligence for machines. It may guide us or give us ideas, but it's not going to solve the problem for us.
- m-i-l 8y agoI like the flight analogy too. Extending it further, we failed to build flying machines by blindly copying bird design when we had no idea how bird flight actually worked, and we successfully built heavier-than-air powered flying machines when we understood how bird flight worked and realised the power-to-weight ratio etc. was such that we'd need a completely different design to get humans into the air. I believe it'll be a similar case with AI and neuroscience - we're unlikely to get general AI until we have a pretty solid understanding of the way human intelligence works, but when we do we'll probably find that the artificial form of intelligence will have to be designed differently due to inherent constraints.