Dogmaphobe
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Artificial intelligence, meh.
Finding any of the stuff produced organically is quite difficult enough.
Finding any of the stuff produced organically is quite difficult enough.
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Is true 'artificial intelligence' possible? Intelligence in the sense that we understand it as a human trait? If so, what does this mean about our view of ourselves and our place in the world? It raises questions of a spiritual and theological nature as well, but I suppose that's for another thread.
As a bonus question, how if at all does this relate to transhumanism?
Interesting piece, 'The Myth Of AI' A Conversation with Jaron Lanier.
The Myth Of AI Edge.org
And this from a piece on books I posted earlier today. What Book Changed Your Mind - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can a computer analyze data semantically, or just syntacticly?
That's the root problem of artificial intelligence, to me.
Can a computer analyze data semantically, or just syntacticly?
That's the root problem of artificial intelligence, to me.
Can a brain?
Can a computer analyze data semantically, or just syntacticly?
That's the root problem of artificial intelligence, to me.
Can a brain?
Yes.
I was thinking about how to answer your question, and the fact that I was thinking about it was proof enough for me.
Can a computer analyze data semantically, or just syntacticly?
That's the root problem of artificial intelligence, to me.
Can a brain?
Yes.
I was thinking about how to answer your question, and the fact that I was thinking about it was proof enough for me.
What about other brains, beyond yours? Do you have any proof that they're not just syntactically responding in a way that "seems" semantic? Are you familiar with the concept of 'p-zombies'?
Can a computer analyze data semantically, or just syntacticly?
That's the root problem of artificial intelligence, to me.
Is true 'artificial intelligence' possible? Intelligence in the sense that we understand it as a human trait? If so, what does this mean about our view of ourselves and our place in the world? It raises questions of a spiritual and theological nature as well, but I suppose that's for another thread.
Is true 'artificial intelligence' possible? Intelligence in the sense that we understand it as a human trait? If so, what does this mean about our view of ourselves and our place in the world? It raises questions of a spiritual and theological nature as well, but I suppose that's for another thread.
Your question is probably the most important question human beings will be dealing with for at least the next 50 yrs. True AI has the potential to change the paradigm we have been in since the arrival of homo sapiens on the scene. Right now I'm reading "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzwell. There are some who dismiss him as a "nut" or "crackpot" since his latest projections in the field. In my opinion a quick overview of his Bio makes him not so easy to ignore though;
"Kurzweil was the principal inventor of the first CCD flatbed scanner,[2]the first omni-font optical character recognition,[2] the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind,[3] the first commercial text-to-speech synthesizer,[4] the Kurzweil K250 music synthesizer capable of simulating the sound of the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.[5]
Kurzweil received the 1999 National Medal of Technology and Innovation, America's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. He was the recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for 2001,[6] the world's largest for innovation. And in 2002 he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, established by the U.S. Patent Office. He has received twenty honorary doctorates, and honors from three U.S. presidents. Kurzweil has been described as a "restless genius"[7] by The Wall Street Journaland "the ultimate thinking machine"[8] by Forbes. PBS included Kurzweil as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America"[9] along with other inventors of the past two centuries. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among the "most fascinating" entrepreneurs in the United States and called him "Edison's rightful heir".[10]"
His predictions about the marriage of machine intelligence and the Human mind may instill hope in many of us, in many of us it instills a deep level of fear and loathing. This short video encapsulates his ideas.
This longer one digs deeper and reveals more of the man himself;
If your curiosity on this topic is insatiable like mine his book "The Singularity is Near" is available on most of the download sites (Paid and un-Paid versions)
Excuse me, but cats and dogs have primitive emotions, but they don't have high intelligence. True intelligence belong to humans. I think that most imortant problem of simulaton of human brain is its complexity. Human brain consist of about 87 billions neyrons, no one modern supercomputer hasn't operating speed enough to emulate it.Emotions are one of the many aspects of the brain that makes it extremely complex. It is the emotions which will distinguish artificial intelligence from a human intelligence. A true intelligence is not possible without its ability to undertake unpredictable actions which we call emotions. When a not so good student pushes himself to do well academically, he is basically charting in a territory which is unpredictable and is driven by an emotion called pride.
Human brain is a product of random events. You cannot design a human brain because design by its nature is limited to its stated specifications and therefore cannot truly produce an intelligent entity like human brain.
Excuse me, but cats and dogs have primitive emotions, but they don't have high intelligence. True intelligence belong to humans. I think that most imortant problem of simulaton of human brain is its complexity. Human brain consist of about 87 billions neyrons, no one supercomputer hasn't operating speed enough to emulate it.Emotions are one of the many aspects of the brain that makes it extremely complex. It is the emotions which will distinguish artificial intelligence from a human intelligence. A true intelligence is not possible without its ability to undertake unpredictable actions which we call emotions. When a not so good student pushes himself to do well academically, he is basically charting in a territory which is unpredictable and is driven by an emotion called pride.
Human brain is a product of random events. You cannot design a human brain because design by its nature is limited to its stated specifications and therefore cannot truly produce an intelligent entity like human brain.
This problem may belong to problems that now are solving by Computational Linguistics and NLP (Natural Language Processing). For example in Russia there is a company that hardly working at machine translating - ABBYY ( omprehensive language support for corporate clients and cutting-edge language technologies and services ABBYY Language Services Scientific investigations are discussed in "Dialog conference": Dialogue - A Major Conference On Computational Linguistics In RussiaCan a computer analyze data semantically, or just syntacticly?
That's the root problem of artificial intelligence, to me.