On Oct 24, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Brad Wyble wrote:
Another point to this discussion is that the problems of AI and cognitive science are unsolvable by a single person. 1 brain can't understand itself, but perhaps 10,000 brains can understand or design 1 brain.
This does not follow. You can build arbitrarily complex machines with a very tiny finite control function and plenty of tape. The complexity of AI as an algorithm and design space is not in the same class as the complexity of an instance of human-level AI, even though the latter is just the former given some state space to play with.
It is highly improbable that the core control function of intelligence cannot be understood by one person, or at least I see no evidence in theory to support this conjecture. Intelligence appears to be a pretty simple thing, even in theory; most of the nominal complexity can be attributed to people who don't really understand it (IMNSHO) or who require the addition of some complexity to solve a practical design problem. What you are saying is kind of like saying that no one can comprehend pi because no one can recite all the digits.
j. andrew rogers
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