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By that logic, wouldn't the electric kettle heating water for the coffee be intelligent? Had it not measured heat when activated, it wouldn't know how to stop a
by yyyk 1y ago
By that logic, wouldn't the electric kettle heating water for the coffee be intelligent? Had it not measured heat when activated, it wouldn't know how to stop and the man would have thrown it away or at least stopped paying for the kettle's electricity.
I think we need a meta layer - ability to reason over one's own goals (this does not contradict the environment creating hard constraints). The man has it. The machine may have it (notably a paperclip maximizer will not count under this criteria). The crow does not.
- pegasus 1y agoYou could say that that, yes, that kettle is intelligent, or smart, as in smart watch. But the intelligence in question clearly derives from the human who designed that kettle. Which is why we describe it as artificial. Similarly, a machine could emulate meta-cognition, but it would in effect only be an reflection and embodiment of certain meta-cognitive processes originally instantiated in the mind which created that machine.
- visarga 1y agoThe kettle costs money to make and use, so it needs to pay back its costs to continue being made, it has to be useful.
- taneq 1y agoYes, if only a tiny amount. The example I use is a toilet cistern, when explaining this to children. It’s probably the closed loop control system with which they have the most firsthand experience, so they understand it best. Also toilet funny haha.