(July 16, 2015 at 2:15 pm)davidMC1982 Wrote: There are areas where human intelligence is vastly superior to AI; recognising people we know being one. We can recognise people from images of their face from most angles. We can recognise people from their gait. I would imagine AI has the advantage when it comes to recognising potential facial matches within a crowd, but I'm fairly sure that we have a higher success rate, given enough time. Generally speaking, object recognition is something we're much better than AI at. However, there's no reason to believe this will always be the case. The fact that we can already implement some rudimentary AI equivalent of everything we do is indicative of that.
Exactly. I can hold up an apple and you will recognise it as an apple if I move towards you, further away, up, sideways, rotate it, partially cover it, dim the lights, change its colour or throw it to you. And this happens really fast. There is a reason that a very large proportion of our brains is devoted to visual processing. We're never aware of the edge detection and pattern matching going on inside our heads, we just see an apple.
(July 16, 2015 at 2:15 pm)davidMC1982 Wrote: The wider understanding of intelligence incorporates learning, decision making, desires, fears and goals amongst other things. Again, there's no reason to think these couldn't be artificially generated. After all, we can trace our roots back to simple bacteria (or further to basic chemistry) which, with a few simple rules and many iterations, came to form us. There's no doubting that iterating generations in a synthetic form will be faster than in a biological one and hence, given the necessary starting conditions, an ability to replicate, and enough randomness, would result in an intelligence like our own.
Strong AI is definitely possible in theory. It's just whether it's actually practical to do so.
