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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 6:48 pm
Yann Lecun once liked one of my comments on Facebook. I didn't know who he was at the time and can't remember what I said but the name looked interesting. But Ben Goertzel, the one who created Sophia and is into AGI, is a facebook friend of mine. Not that I have ever met him in person, or even spoken to him and he didn't even respond to my PM asking how he found me when he sent me a friend request. He seems to send friend requests to any published researcher in AI and so conversations sometimes occur.
People are attributing far too much intelligence to Sophia. But on the other hand I will still seriously listen to anyone who actually creates AI over someone like Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil or Kevin Warwick. (I once brought down a shit storm on myself for slating Ray Kurzweil on facebook, there are a hell of a lot of AI groupies out there). Thing is, you can think about AI as much as you want. but you can only make progress by actually trying to create AI, seeing what works and what doesn't. This is because it is the only way to find out what the real challenges are. Creating a physical body that can act like a human, even if it is totally scripted and has very limited intelligence is still a worthwhile endeavour.
Most AI is trickery which looks more impressive than it is. That's not to say that we don't learn anything from doing it, but the challenge with AI is making it scale up.
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 7:03 pm
(January 18, 2018 at 6:48 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Yann Lecun once liked one of my comments on Facebook. I didn't know who he was at the time and can't remember what I said but the name looked interesting. But Ben Goertzel, the one who created Sophia and is into AGI, is a facebook friend of mine. Not that I have ever met him in person, or even spoken to him and he didn't even respond to my PM asking how he found me when he sent me a friend request. He seems to send friend requests to any published researcher in AI and so conversations sometimes occur.
People are attributing far too much intelligence to Sophia. But on the other hand I will still seriously listen to anyone who actually creates AI over someone like Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil or Kevin Warwick. (I once brought down a shit storm on myself for slating Ray Kurzweil on facebook, there are a hell of a lot of AI groupies out there). Thing is, you can think about AI as much as you want. but you can only make progress by actually trying to create AI, seeing what works and what doesn't. This is because it is the only way to find out what the real challenges are. Creating a physical body that can act like a human, even if it is totally scripted and has very limited intelligence is still a worthwhile endeavour.
Most AI is trickery which looks more impressive than it is. That's not to say that we don't learn anything from doing it, but the challenge with AI is making it scale up.
It does make me wonder how much of human intelligence is trickery that looks more impressive than it is. 
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 7:09 pm
Personally I prefer ASIMO... and was absolutely fascinated by this segment about it by James May when I first saw it:
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 18, 2018 at 11:03 pm
(January 18, 2018 at 7:03 pm)polymath257 Wrote: (January 18, 2018 at 6:48 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Yann Lecun once liked one of my comments on Facebook. I didn't know who he was at the time and can't remember what I said but the name looked interesting. But Ben Goertzel, the one who created Sophia and is into AGI, is a facebook friend of mine. Not that I have ever met him in person, or even spoken to him and he didn't even respond to my PM asking how he found me when he sent me a friend request. He seems to send friend requests to any published researcher in AI and so conversations sometimes occur.
People are attributing far too much intelligence to Sophia. But on the other hand I will still seriously listen to anyone who actually creates AI over someone like Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil or Kevin Warwick. (I once brought down a shit storm on myself for slating Ray Kurzweil on facebook, there are a hell of a lot of AI groupies out there). Thing is, you can think about AI as much as you want. but you can only make progress by actually trying to create AI, seeing what works and what doesn't. This is because it is the only way to find out what the real challenges are. Creating a physical body that can act like a human, even if it is totally scripted and has very limited intelligence is still a worthwhile endeavour.
Most AI is trickery which looks more impressive than it is. That's not to say that we don't learn anything from doing it, but the challenge with AI is making it scale up.
It does make me wonder how much of human intelligence is trickery that looks more impressive than it is.
Simulation of intelligence=intelligence.
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 19, 2018 at 12:06 am
polymath257 Wrote:Whatever else is going on, the robots are certainly getting close to passing the Turing test. If not already passed.
No way, not even close, Sophia has a habit of dodging hard questions...like any other scripted AI. Don't expect a semi-serious contender for the Turing test in at least a hundred years.
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 19, 2018 at 12:11 am
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(January 19, 2018 at 12:06 am)pool the matey Wrote: polymath257 Wrote:Whatever else is going on, the robots are certainly getting close to passing the Turing test. If not already passed.
No way, not even close, Sophia has a habit of dodging hard questions...
Because people..with their real intelligence™, definitely -don't- have any such habit, no siree.....
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 19, 2018 at 1:44 am
(January 17, 2018 at 3:48 pm)Succubus Wrote: (January 17, 2018 at 1:23 pm)Hammy Wrote: I got TWELVE kudos for this! Fucking hell! I've been a member here since 2008 and this has gotta be my record!
I know plenty of people have beaten this after like their 7th thread within like 2 weeks of joining.... but I am not normally one for having people agree with me! 
No, I'm not going to make it thirteen, fuck off.
Hi, what is your age? Just curious to know.
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 19, 2018 at 3:33 am
(January 19, 2018 at 1:44 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (January 17, 2018 at 3:48 pm)Succubus Wrote: No, I'm not going to make it thirteen, fuck off.
Hi, what is your age? Just curious to know.
I thought of adding a smiley to that post then decided against it as being unnecessary. Clearly I was wrong.
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 19, 2018 at 6:08 am
(January 19, 2018 at 3:33 am)Succubus Wrote: (January 19, 2018 at 1:44 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Hi, what is your age? Just curious to know.
I thought of adding a smiley to that post then decided against it as being unnecessary. Clearly I was wrong.
My question is completely independent of that post. I'm just curious to know how old you are and only quoted you so that you'd get notification. So, how old are You?
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RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
January 19, 2018 at 2:05 pm
(January 19, 2018 at 6:08 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (January 19, 2018 at 3:33 am)Succubus Wrote: I thought of adding a smiley to that post then decided against it as being unnecessary. Clearly I was wrong.
My question is completely independent of that post. I'm just curious to know how old you are and only quoted you so that you'd get notification. So, how old are You?
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