Can we build AI without losing control over it? | Sam Harris

[Edwardo Piet]

And only a very small portion of what the brain does is actually relevant to intelligence.

Depending on how you define intelligence.

But that doesn't help if you are trying to create artificial intelligence. This is why classical AI failed after trying to get some success after 40 years. This is why the fields of new AI / non-symbolic AI  and artificial Life came about.

Intelligence isn't just about reasoning about abstract things. It includes sensory processing, linguistics, motor co-ordination. This all requires learning and adaptation to an environment. Why wouldn't you call that intelligence?

Well it doesn't really matter whether A.I. has 'actual genuine intelligence' or not it just matters about how the field progresses.

I'm just saying you can be skillful at adapting to an enviroment without understanding anything or having any intelligence at all. A.I. is artificial intelligence. It doesn't have to be genuine intelligence. Example: The best chess players in the world by far are computers now... they are the 'smartest' players, the most 'intelligent' players that make the best moves and least mistakes... but they're not actually smart or intelligent at all. They don't understand a thing. It's all knowledge and memory rather than comprehension and understanding. Their intelligence is artificial. Does that matter? No. I was just saying that adapting in an environment isn't intelligence.