On Monday, November 24, 2014 5:59:56 PM UTC, John Clark wrote:
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> [email protected] <javascript:>: 
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> > 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.    
>

I agree it can happen. But I think it's a hard problem that will need to be 
theory led. 

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