AT:I just have to ask, will there be concepts for your "machine"? Will there ever be milk, bread and cheese?
This again is an excellent question. It is something I have just realised and will expand another time - there is no AI machine that can handle concepts - true language.
Conceptual thinking is "highbrow" thought - the high level of thinking currently beyond every computer. Algorithms (and logic and maths) and all computers to date are "lowbrow thought" - strictly low level, routine thinking and cannot be more. Conceptual thinking is the only form and level of thinking that is sufficient for AGI. It is not just another alternative, it is both the summit and the foundation of AGI. And patternist thinking, B & B, is strictly low level stuff and the antithesis of conceptual.
Conceptual thinking *can* be mechanised and programmed, but only with a body.
P.S. "Let's have some milk, bread and cheese" is an example of conceptual thinking - and the high level of thought beyond algorithms. It may look easy and simple, but it is deceptively complicated and powerful - like so many other "simple" human functions.
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