dmb said:
Hubert Dreyfus says that artificial intelligence will never work.
He teaches Heidegger at Berkeley now, but started out in the
sciences at MIT. He has the very tough job of trying to explain
to the IT community that they are working with certain metaphysical
assumptions that lead them to error. ... They're typical SOM scientists.
Ian replied:
Agreed - AI "will never work" until it is realised that life has to evolve
before intelligence .... and then it's not artificial any more, simply
real.
Krimel replied:
I would say it is way to early do discount AI. Moore's law is still
ticking away and machine capacities continue to accelerate.
It is impossible to say what capabilities inorganic intelligences
will have in 20 or 30 years much less 100 years. ...But it is ridiculous
to assume that philosophical analysis can declare anything to be
technologically impossible.
Leave it to an objectivist to put technology before metaphysical truth.
Dreyfus is right, of course. A machine, regardless of how complex or
sophisticated its design and processing capability, is not a cognizant
being. The notion that Science will eventually produce a conscious machine
overlooks the fact that intelligence is information, not consciousness. You
can no more put consciousness into an electro-mechanical device than you can
transform it into a living organism. I am appalled that such illogical
thinking surfaces in a purportedly "enlightened" philosophy forum, let alone
the AI community.
--Ham
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