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I don’t think he actually cares about mimicking humans, I think he just wants a truly intelligent AI system that can learn in a sophisticated way like humans do
by serverholic 4y ago
I don’t think he actually cares about mimicking humans, I think he just wants a truly intelligent AI system that can learn in a sophisticated way like humans do.
I think that’s actually pretty doable. Take for example flying. We don’t build airplanes that flap their wings because we have a deeper understanding of flight that allows us to build flying machines far beyond the capabilities of any animal.
Likewise, once we understand the mechanics of intelligence we should be able to build something that can learn that is completely computer based.
- kmoser 4y agoAGI not bound to a physical presence is almost an oxymoron. Without basic motivation (hunger, sleep, happiness, etc.), how will it learn? What is its incentive to actually do anything? What's to prevent it from telling us to take a hike? "Intelligence" is not something easily abstracted away from the physical world, especially if you want something to learn on its own. How will an AGI to learn that stoves are hot? The main challenge I see to creating such a system that can truly learn is that you will have to constrain it to have motivation to learn and follow your directions, and nothing else. And even if you could add such constraints, what would "learning" mean to such a device? What would stop it from going off on useless tangents, like attempting to count every grain of sand you show it? Anything with as much autonomy as it takes to have AGI will likely start coming to conclusions we don't want it to. My guess is that in the near future, either we'll create something that is beyond our ability to control effectively, or it will be yet another clever simulation of AGI that is not really AGI.