Bob Mottram wrote:
On 11/02/2008, Richard Loosemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But now, by contrast, if you are assuming (as Matt does, I believe) that
somehow a cluster of sub-intelligent specialists across the net will
gradually increase in intelligence until their sum total amounts to a
full AI, then you are begging some enormous questions.
The "army of experts" is only one possibility. Probably like most
people on this list I think producing more intelligent machines is
going to require a more closely integrated cognitive architecture.
Integration however doesn't mean that the system has to reside on a
single computer or physical device.
No, agreed: what I was really arguing against was a scenario that comes
up frequently, in which AI is achieved by accident, so to speak, as a
lot of expert systems gradually accumulate in the net.
There is no reason, as you say, why someone should not design a complete
AI system that was distributed. In practice, I think that any
organization that will have the wherewithal to do that will take firm
steps to keep it in house.
Richard Loosemore
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