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we don't understand our own minds
Anyone who thinks that could do worse than read:
Plato's Phaedo
Plato's Republic
Plato's Parmenides
Plato's Theaetetus
Plato's Sophist
Plotinus' The Enneads
Kant's Critique of Pure ReasonJust for starters. :)
Of course, the fundamental uncertainty at the root of it all persists in the face of the best philosophy, and 'artificial intelligence' is still baloney. Can we create very sophisticated computer systems mocking up how we think? Yes, probably. Can we create something that is alive in the same way we are and hence has 'intelligence'? Probably not.
Oliver Schick-
So much this. I've read none of your suggestions unfortunately, but the Philosophy and Ethics behind it are astounding. At this point, I'm not even talking about "I think, therefore I am" marlarkay. I'm talking about...how do we think? Someone out there might enlighten us, but It still floors me how much information we literally dump/ignore.
Shit...at this juncture, the human brain actually creates content for us to fill in blanks or to save our 'self' from scarring if we experience trauma. We lie, we cheat and we rationalise. How do we (and should we even allow ourselves to?) create an AI with said human facets? Is it even an AI without these things or just a glorified iPhone.
@hippy Going quantum would create a fair ripple from what I've read. Simply because we'll abandon the rapid task switching mechanism to infinite possibilities and thus maybe come closer to replicating some simplistic version of the human mind. Like I am right now. Hangry. Hungry and angry but at the same time I can't be arsed to go acquire food so I'm getting hungrier and thus madder, which spends energy and makes me hungrier.
Infinite loop.Beer time.
Chak
This. I was getting really excited about AI in the pub once and a mate just said that we don't understand our own minds, so how can we create another?
Sometimes I think of it as a simple input/output/computation problem though. When we create a system that can process as much information (sights, sounds, touch etc) as quickly as a human, will it just 'be' intelligent? Will it need an aim? The atari example gives the algorithm rewards with the in-game points. Scary to imagine more sophisticated bots could have rewards for much more sinister things. Without an aim, will it just try things at random (like a baby)? A robot with the power of a human but the whims of an infant is scary too.
Have done, can confirm I haven't achieved world domination.