There's a POV on intelligence which is similar to the one regarding the "soul", "consciousness", "free will" - these are social "rewards", items used for social discrimination, the ones who got it are "higher" and that's their "objective" and "ethical" reason to have certain rights.
The "defintion" of intelligence is arbitrary only in cases, I am personally fully aware what I want my thinking machine to be able to do, and what it doesn't do yet/is not implemented (or what the others' machines don't). I will also remind, that "human level" and "humanity level" are confused. A human-level AGI might be actually a super-human and "humanity-level" by the beginning due to the humans input-output bottleneck which the machines lack. The bar for the average humans is pretty low in most domains, also. Matt>Right. We expect something special to happen when computers >surpass human intelligence. As if such a thing had any meaning Yes, it will be very spectacular and very quick... For example, one computer alone will be able to code an operating system that's functionally equivalent to a modern OS developed for decades, well for the history of electronic computers, by thousands or millions of people. It will do like this: flip-flop. The device drivers? It may design it in a way that's compatible with the drivers of some particular OS and pick those drivers. Anyone here familiar with the OS? Complex? I don't think so - it's complex and hard only for humans, and only at first sight - it's big as number lines of code, otherwise it's just a literal function of the CPU's architecture that's unfolded and multiplied for multitasking, with some arbitrary decisions, some of which are a function of human memory peculiarities regarding their working memory capacity and how the functions are divided etc. A thinking machine could experiment anyhow regarding the arbitrary decisions. Given it could use virtual machines to test them, and that it actually wouldn't need to do tests the way humans do, it could read the literature on OS and pick the best practices. It would write a novel or generate movies on the fly - humans also can do it, everything is done on the fly, but the problem with humans is that we are too slow. All the software that has been created, the functional part of it, would be possible to be generated in almost no time from scratch, any needed software could be literally "spawned" or re-configured or ported immediately on demand by any computer with VLSI/AGI software on it. And that's just one spectacular thing that will happen quickly after the Versatile Limitless Self Improvers are once integrated and run. I think it should come pretty soon, even if you just notice how much absurd and inadequate for current technologies is the process of hand typing code, using keyboards which are essentially the same like 19-th century typewriters... :-D It is so inefficient and slow, even with predictive tools and interactive help - a developer may be seeing an entire complex software system, but he may need to type in and debug 30-50-100K lines of code, which may take an age if done the silly conventional way. The humans' slow fingers are the bottlenecks of Progress... ;) *-- * *=== Todor "Tosh" Arnaudov ===* .... Twenkid Research: http://research.twenkid.com .... Author of the world's first University courses in AGI (2010, 2011): http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com/2010/04/universal-artificial-intelligence.html .... Todor Arnaudov's Researches Blog: http://artificial-mind.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
