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In many ways our relationship with AI is reminiscent of the one we used to have with gods and spirits. Thanks to the AI Effect, one day, we will be able to poin
by Dn_Ab 12y ago
In many ways our relationship with AI is reminiscent of the one we used to have with gods and spirits. Thanks to the AI Effect, one day, we will be able to point to each aspect of intelligence and find that actually, it's just some banal algorithm used by Walmart operations departments. After which, we will be forced to conclude that Intelligence does not exist or worse, face something fearsome indeed.
More seriously, your point is common and valid. My own belief however, is that whatever it is that underlies our ability; it will be some mish of deduction, abduction, optimization and search. The application of search/optimization towards the fulfillment of some goal should count as intelligence. But I understand why this view might not (yet) be widely held. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
- ars 12y ago> conclude that Intelligence does not exist You are going about it backwards. Intelligence obviously does exist, yet when we try to figure out what makes it tick each step seems banal. Your conclusion is that intelligence might not exist, mine is that defining intelligence by the parts that make it up is incorrect. Intelligence is some sort of super-process that is not so easy to break down. It's like how we share 98% of DNA with an ape - so clearly there is only a 2% difference. Except not. There is a huge difference, an unmeasurable difference, which means that classifying DNA by percent similarity in base pairs is an incorrect approach.