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> Behalf Of The Fool
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> You are undoubted right, up to a point. Isn't 2/3 of the brain devoted
> to image processing? That is the easiest sensory input to replicate, and
> to a certain extent they are already doing it (somewhat) with all this
> new face-recognition software everywhere. The next would be auditory
> which probably farther ahead then visual. What's left? We can tell
> temperature pretty easily. Balance is harder (then again segway's just
> came out). Pressure is harder, but still easily doable. That really
> only leaves a few, smell/taste/pain/etc.
I think you are vastly over-estimating the intelligence in facial
recognition. That's a long, long way from the visual capabilities of a
human, or even much lower-order species. AI research has a long history of
imagining it is close to accomplishing true AI, but what ends up happening
is that a goal is met and the researchers discover there's more to
intelligence than they thought. That's been the pattern since the '60s and
I don't think it has changed.
Being able to sense something is not the same as being able to make sense of
it.
Nick
