On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> And anyway the really important thing isn't if you can detect if the >> thing you're talking to is a human but if you can detect if the thing >> you're talking to is intelligent. >> > > > Yes, that is the important thing. That is not what the Turing Test asks, > though. > I believe the only reason he devised it to test for humanity rather than intelligence is that he thought if people knew it was a machine most would never admit it was intelligent regardless of what it did. And I think Turing was correct about that. > > and still we don't have HAL 9000. > True, but with Watson we're getting close. > > I fully believe it is possible to have an advanced intelligence without > a human body > Me too. > > but it will not be a human > Of course not, it will be more than human. > Even language is interpreted in a very narrow sense with Watson. > Watson can understand elliptical sentences, obscure allusions and sophisticated wordplay better than I can, but maybe that just means my intelligence is even narrower than Watson's. > > It can essentially discover the most plausible answer to a question > As I said, to me the most impressive thing was that Watson understood the question, I don't care as much if he knew the answer or not. > > It cannot invent a joke or write a novel. > Most people can't do that either. And researchers at the University of Edinburgh made a machine that can write jokes such as "I like my relationships like I like my source, open". Well OK maybe it's not a particularly funny joke but it's a start. Or maybe the computer just didn't tell it right. http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0894589/petrovic13unsupervised.pdf > > I believe there will be AIs capable of inventing jokes and writing > novels, but I also believe they will require a vastly different algorithm. > Like you, I really look froward to that algorithm being found, > I doubt there will be one grand algorithm that solves the entire problem of intelligence, instead there will be thousands or millions of smaller interlocking algorithms, and algorithms that search for the correct algorithm to search for the correct algorithm to use in a particular situation. 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.
