[email protected]: > But what is distinctive about your position, that would not be available > if our knowledge of what intelligence was had not advanced? >
Perhaps a computer could but I'm only human and I don't understand the question. > There's two logical explanations for your position. One of them is simply > that you are saying what you would be saying if technology had advanced but > the understanding of how to create A.I. had not. > >From a practical operational standpoint the important thing isn't how fast humans are figuring out how intelligence works but how fast machines are becoming intelligent. I think it very unlikely, probably impossible, that any human being, or even any group of people, will ever have a deep understanding of how the first human level AI works; but that doesn't mean such machines won't get built, and in less than 50 years, possibly much less. John K Clark -- 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.

