On 12/24/06, phil henshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a little confused. If AI is the art of replicating the mechanisms > of human intelligence with machines, doesn't that assume that brain > function is digital? I don뭪 think that's been demonstrated as yet.
The metaphor makes sense, but the thing is, we really don't have enough there to generalize from. In practical terms, most implementations of AI tend to be very targeted. Like the techniques which emulate inference and causality are very, very different from the techniques which emulate language and grammar. (Just as an example.) What you really have is not a grand unified theory of human consciousness so much as a grab-bag of techniques that sorta work. Some techniques are effective enough to offer insight into the individual processes they emulate, but there really isn't anything consistent enough to offer general insight into intelligence itself. -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com http://gilesgoatboy.blogspot.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
