On 5/20/20 10:24 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
But anyone who believes that AI is possible must logically reject this idea if they accept that all human behavior is computable.
It's probable that human behavior is computable - but it takes an immense amount of data - both the present and the past to make the computations. Yes there are "reasons" and causes and effects that cause people to do what they do. If there is a divine cause and effect, it follows that our human "computations" will come up short in the computations. If there is a God, he has to be beyond our understanding or He is not the Diety we mostly think of when we say God.
I don't see how belief in the possibility AI is reason to reject the "Creator" vision of existence. Artificial intelligence simply means that a basically "mechanical" device can be intelligent. The device doesn't need a soul to be intelligent - unless I don't really understand intelligence. I see intelligence is the ability to select a behavior for a moment - the degree of intelligence is about the "best-ness" of that choice, and the range of choices possible for the unit.
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