RE: Artificial Intelligence
July 22, 2015 at 10:16 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2015 at 10:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Here's an interesting thought experiment. Imagine that you are an alien from a distant planet comprised of lifeforms that human beings would consider machines, mechanical. You see the organisms here and conclude that some portion of them are thinking, are intelligent, but according to your alien standard, artificial. Human beings down to bacteria, where do you, as that alien species, draw the line for strong ai within this set? What is the creature that is, essentially, the floor for "strong ai in bioautomotons". Now, perhaps even more illuminating, the next creature down the rungs, still an intelligence, but not a "strong" intelligence, what would that be, and on what grounds does the one fail to qualify as a strong bioautomaton intelligence, where the other succeeds?
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