If we model them after humans the answer is yes
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:05 AM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > If machines can have artificial intelligence can they have artificial > stupidity? > > harry > > > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:02 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I said "operational definitions" are crucial to experiments and that's >> virtually by definition. You, yourself, admitted it when you tried to >> escape from an operational definition of intelligence by using art as a >> proxy and then you went ahead and found yourself providing an operational >> definition of art. >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eric Walker <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:41 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> They are necessary so you can perform experiments. If you don't like an >>>> operational definition then you need to say why. >>>> >>> >>> It seems like it is possible to make progress on a question like this >>> without requiring a formal definition. Perhaps a similar question to >>> whether artificial intelligence is possible is whether computers can create >>> art. A well-conceived experiment might involve a panel of judges who use >>> their experience and intuition, perhaps along with some guidelines, to >>> judge submissions of "art," who then try to decide whether the submissions >>> were from from a person or from a computer. A formal definition might seek >>> to spell out exactly what art is so that we can tell with great assurance >>> whether a computer has produced it. But art is something that is hard to >>> define, and many people produce very poor art. >>> >>> I remember reading about a contest where they had a person who served as >>> a judge on one side of a terminal and either a computer or a person on the >>> other, and the judge had to decide whether he or she was interacting with a >>> computer. This seems like a test and one that can sort out whether >>> artificial intelligence has been achieved to a certain extent (the computer >>> fools most of the judges over a period of trials), without weighing down >>> the challenge with the need to spell out what intelligence is. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> >> >
