> it will merely search through a search space you will have to determine yourself What makes you think "human imagination" is any different, qualitatively at

> it will merely search through a search space you will have to determine yourself What makes you think "human imagination" is any different, qualitatively at least? Yes, our minds have a humongous search space at their disposal: what comes through our sense organs, the processed memories of our entire lives and the ability to consume information in formats that are very hard for current AI systems to make sense of (ambiguous written sources, like most of the world's literature, ambiguous communication in form of conversations, art etc.). Add this with the fact that we can all communicate and the search space becomes as big as the minds of the entire human beings alive (thoug admitedly, you have very pool bandwith and availability of access to this amount of information), plus the transmitted pieces from the ones before, and that this space is ever expanding, and you get the "miracle of human imagination". ...but a human level AI will have access to the same thing (by definition, because otherwise we wouldn't call it "human level AI"), so the same kind of "imagination" but augmented by 10...0x times better connectivity and access to it and everything related. Also, the search space is fixed for human minds too, it's called the universe, and at least if we accept the scientific-objective world view, we don't make it any larger by imagining things (if I imagine a new particle, it doesn't just pop into existence out of my imagination). The only way to defend a difference between "human imagination" and "artificial imagination" is to go against the science based and objective world view. EDIT: typed "intelligence" instead of "imagination" at the end, sorry...