scottdavidsearle
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intelligence.? We measure artificial intelligence in tests such as the Turing test, and in other tests which measure things such as creativity, responses, imagination, adaptability, the ability to learn, the ability to abstract, and so fourth.
My question is does a computer, or other man-made machine really need to be intelligent to show all of these traits and more? Or does it simply need to be a powerful machine, which has been loaded with decades of collected material, where the computer in question interacts with people, who teach it what is correct, and what is incorrect? Who load it with experiences and give it billions upon billions of examples from which it can continue to extrapolate a sense of wrong and right, creative and uncreative, etc.
I believe that our brains are nothing more than advanced computers. Biological computers, sure, but still computers. They have the ability to compute, and they have an eventual limitation.
However what really gives us all of the above traits, is not our brains, but our experiences in life, and considering that the human brain is comparable to a computer, that -it- can learn to hold the traits mentioned above, goes to show that choice is nothing more than a calculation between various variables, with the 'correct' choice being nothing more than a path to a desired outcome.
So tell me, what do you think?
My question is does a computer, or other man-made machine really need to be intelligent to show all of these traits and more? Or does it simply need to be a powerful machine, which has been loaded with decades of collected material, where the computer in question interacts with people, who teach it what is correct, and what is incorrect? Who load it with experiences and give it billions upon billions of examples from which it can continue to extrapolate a sense of wrong and right, creative and uncreative, etc.
I believe that our brains are nothing more than advanced computers. Biological computers, sure, but still computers. They have the ability to compute, and they have an eventual limitation.
However what really gives us all of the above traits, is not our brains, but our experiences in life, and considering that the human brain is comparable to a computer, that -it- can learn to hold the traits mentioned above, goes to show that choice is nothing more than a calculation between various variables, with the 'correct' choice being nothing more than a path to a desired outcome.
So tell me, what do you think?