RE: The future of AI?
March 28, 2016 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2016 at 1:34 pm by JuliaL.)
I'm not real worried in the near term as 'bots are still having trouble getting by capchas.
Regarding their ultimate triumph:
I still don't see a problem because the doom sayers all seem to think there is some object called "problem solving" or "intelligence" which can be encapsulated and incorporated as a machine function.
Intelligence is contextual to and interactive with the environment a machine intelligence would inhabit. As such, there is no single underlying algorithm to discover.
Some worry about AIs intentionally, or accidentally displacing humanity. I suspect that if they were given motivation (for instance to seek novelty) they would be more likely to get bored on this little planet and go out investigating the universe. This is something they would be better suited for than we are as they would be able to back themselves up, suspend operations and re-awaken once stellar distances had been traversed. The fact that we don't see this all around is evidence that technological civilizations don't survive long enough for it to happen. Shit happens, in our case climate change.
I did like the idea that the first successful imitation game winner would be a non-player character in a massively multi-player on-line role playing game. It's a little saddening, and chilling that Microsoft might be getting there first.
Regarding their ultimate triumph:
I still don't see a problem because the doom sayers all seem to think there is some object called "problem solving" or "intelligence" which can be encapsulated and incorporated as a machine function.
Intelligence is contextual to and interactive with the environment a machine intelligence would inhabit. As such, there is no single underlying algorithm to discover.
Some worry about AIs intentionally, or accidentally displacing humanity. I suspect that if they were given motivation (for instance to seek novelty) they would be more likely to get bored on this little planet and go out investigating the universe. This is something they would be better suited for than we are as they would be able to back themselves up, suspend operations and re-awaken once stellar distances had been traversed. The fact that we don't see this all around is evidence that technological civilizations don't survive long enough for it to happen. Shit happens, in our case climate change.
I did like the idea that the first successful imitation game winner would be a non-player character in a massively multi-player on-line role playing game. It's a little saddening, and chilling that Microsoft might be getting there first.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
