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Surely strong AI is by definition such a paradigm shift that it cannot be achieved with lots of little steps of weak AI? I thought that was kind of the point of
by JonnieCache 16y ago
Surely strong AI is by definition such a paradigm shift that it cannot be achieved with lots of little steps of weak AI? I thought that was kind of the point of the strong/weak AI dichotomy.
- cryptoz 16y agoSure, and that's why I phrased that suggestion as a question. Maybe we're not walking towards strong AI with weak AI steps. But...with AI writing sports articles now, it seems logical to wonder if perhaps small progressions in the capabilities of weak AI systems will result in real, full AGI.
- abstractbill 16y agoMaybe we're not walking towards strong AI with weak AI steps. Just a random thought, but even if all of our weak AI systems don't directly result in us being able to build a strong AI, maybe they will do so indirectly. We might be able to use all of these weak AI systems to train a more general-purpose strong AI system.
- jerf 16y agoA definition has no power to change the engineering feasibility of a task. If it is possible to build a strong AI from a series of weak AI steps, which is certainly not out of the question (one can argue that's how human brains work), no amount of definition will change that.
- joshes 16y agoThis takes us back to the problem of emergence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence), something that AI researchers, entomologists, economists, et al. have been struggling with for some time.
- JonnieCache 16y agoHowever if we accept the definition, then it is surely meaningless (pointless?) to discuss AI progress in those terms. EDIT: what i really mean is that I reject the strong/weak AI dichotomy. I really need to resist the urge to play pointless semantic games. Guess thats an occupational hazard of programming all day long.