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I wonder if general artificial intelligence will one day be considered the digital equivalent of the philosopher’s stone. For centuries, alchemists made it thei
by tediousdemise 5y ago
I wonder if general artificial intelligence will one day be considered the digital equivalent of the philosopher’s stone. For centuries, alchemists made it their life goal to produce the stone, each attempt resulting in utter failure.
- sgt101 5y agoThere's a huge difference: no natural process that was observed by alchemists acted as a philosophers stone. They sought to find one, but never did. On the other hand I can observe intelligence in the sentence you have written, and maybe you can observe intelligence in this one that I have written. Natural intelligence does exist, the questions are how does it work, and what are the barriers to it existing in other substrates. AI doesn't have to try to create intelligence to answer well posed scientific questions - the alchemists didn't get to that point until people started building nuclear reactors.