On 8/30/2014 4:04 PM, LizR wrote:
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.
How do you have a concept of what "Who was Charlamagne?" about? Isn't a lot of of it
verbal and relational; stuff Winston does know. Of course Winston is ignorant about a lot
of basic things about being a person because it doesn't have perceptive sensors and the
ability to move and manipulate things.
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.
Isn't the reason you think that is because its input/output is so limited? It wouldn't be
at all difficult to add to Deep Blue's program so that on winning it composed a poem of
celebration and displayed fireworks on a screen - or even set off real fireworks - and on
losing it shut down and refused to do anything for three days.
Brent
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.
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