(July 13, 2015 at 6:13 pm)I_am_not_mafia Wrote:(July 13, 2015 at 8:49 am)bennyboy Wrote: Absolutely. Computers have passed the Turing test, and this is only about 30 years after decent home computers came out. AI will pass humans in most ways in a lifetime, almost for sure.
A chatbot passed the Turing Test in the 70's by pretending to be a paranoid Schizophrenic (lookup Parry). That wasn't intelligence though by any means.
Intelligence is more than just chatting. A large proportion of the brain is devoted to the visual cortex for example.
If we're going to have no true Scotsman, and say that only human beings have big-I "Intelligence," because intelligence means being human, then okay. But that doesn't change the fact that computers already play chess better than people, have superior facial and pattern recognition skills, etc. right now, today. The google translate program for sure knows more about world languages than humans do. And all these skills are adaptible.
