To be absolutely clear - the "Artificial" in AI refers to the machine which hosts the intelligence, not to the intelligence itself.
The problem with machines defeating "Jeopardy" players (I assume this refers to this - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy_%28TV_series%29 ?) is that the machines concerned almost certainly have no concepts of what the answers were about. Hence they aren't in fact "doing what humans do" (or at least not most humans do, apart from perhaps *idiots savant*). Likewise, Deep Junior almost certainly has no concept of what it's doing when it scores a 3-3 tie aganst Kasparov. It has no concept of itself or its opponent, or very limited "concepts" embedded in relatively small* data structures - and it experiences no emotions on winning or losing. According to Bruno, at least, its possible for a machine to do all the above, but I don't think we've got one yet (apart from the ones made all over the world by unskilled labour, of course). *At least I imagine that the human concept of "self" involves more than, say, a few megabytes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
