Programming AI
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I'll believe in AI when my computer starts demanding time off to hang out on the beach.
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On a serious note, I agree, Stan. I just go blank on how to start replying that kind of argument. One piece of code is certainly not intelligent, one of my friends used to say (and still says), but a billion might be, and a collection of zillions assuredly would be. As if a difference of quantity guaruntees a difference of kind to him. What then happens to the principle of concepts as open-ended classifications? [Let me mention a little more argument of the same kind here, just in passing... Cutting one tree is OK, two is OK, but you say THREE trees and... (Al Gore). Abortion in n-1th week is OK, in nth week is OK, but (n+1)th week, and... (Gore's political opponents.)] BTW, our lingo is quite old-fashioned in this thread. In research, these days, AI is considered dead. Yes, almost fully dead. The bright Emergent Future now belongs to Spiritual Robots.... What that tells me is that they just got funding for hardware in addition to software. That's all it means. ------- Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. (Francis Bacon) Nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed. (Ayn Rand)
One piece of code is certainly not intelligent, one of my friends used to say (and still says), but a billion might be, and a collection of zillions assuredly would be. As opposed to: - one human that might or might not be intelligent - a small group that is more intelligent than the aggregate intelligences of the individuals - a large group that is dumber than the aggregate (a mob or inefficient company) the scalability of a system is limited by communication efficiency, scalability of intelligence is limited by the communication efficiency of intelligent discourse (noise vs. content) -John