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>The "holy grail" of intelligence -- that is, actual human intelligence... When people talk about human-level AI, are they referring to specific beneficial sub

by halfcat 12y ago

>The "holy grail" of intelligence -- that is, actual human intelligence... When people talk about human-level AI, are they referring to specific beneficial subsets of human intelligence, like holding a conversation or interacting with the world around them, or does it literally include all of human cognition? In other words, would the "holy grail" include AI that acts extremely irrational and makes poor decisions based on temporary chemical imbalances in the body? Does the perfect human-level AI get depressed and commit suicide some of the time? Are we trying to replicate all of the parts, or only the good parts?

chmike 12y ago
Good point. I would compare it with human speech. Human speech is a powerful mean to communicate and for this reason it is thus very tempting to develop artificial systems that can communicate in the same way. But human language is far from optimal. In the same way, I believe that human brain is powerful but far from optimal. The strength of human brain is its ability to adapt to fast changing context. The solution (function) it finds is however usually far from optimal. I also think that the future of computing is the development of systems that can efficiently adapt their rules of actions according to execution context evolution. The programmers of today will then become trainers.