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The difference between "artificial intelligence" and "automated problem solving" is how much the algorithm designers understand what's going on. Computers will

• paganel 12y ago
  > Computers will certainly be able to understand jokes or innuendo. At least as well as people do, anyway. Serious question, are we close to anywhere on that? I last looked at AI-related stuff around 10 years ago, when "sentiment analysis" as it was then called was only capable of approximating what "good press" and "bad press" meant. > As far as the Madeleine effect goes, I'm not sure why you consider that intelligence? I'm making a generalization in thinking that "intelligence" ultimately means "human intelligence", and I'm also assuming (probably wrong, there's no exact science for it) that things like the "Madeleine effect" sit at the core of us being humans, and the third (and last generalization) in thinking that if you're not experiencing things like the "Madeleine effect" you're not really human-like, so you cannot really be "intelligent". Writers like Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke have written about this problem (what it means to be human when "robots" will come about) way better than I could ever dream of doing, but my favorite presentation of the potential issues when the Singularity will come around remains Stanislaw Lem's "The Cyberiad". Or we could continue focusing on technicalities only and call it a day.