From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 17:43:31 MDT
> I must agree here. I am seeing an unfortunate tendency to ascribe
> Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Consciousness to anything big and
> complicated or fancy.
See! This proves my assertion a few months ago. Can it interact
in a moderately interesting but ultimately boring way? Yes.
Is it a wet biological creature with a human genome? No.
QED. It *must* be "Artificial Intelligence".
> Search engines, databases, lookup tables, fuzzy logic
> and chatbots are not AIs! Not even close!
Aha, but are you asserting that search engines, databases,
lookup tables and fuzzy logic (I'll remove chatbots) cannot
emulate a significant fraction of human behavior?
If most other human beings did *not* display an extraordinary
amount of behavior that can be specified by a finite state
automata it would *not* be safe to go out in the world.
Case A: You *expect* drivers of the oncoming car in the
opposite lane to *stay* in that lane (or if they are not
in that lane because they are driving down the middle
of an infrequently traveled street, you expect they will
move to get into that lane).
Case B: You *expect* the people outside your grocery store
who are asking for spare change to behave in a moderately courteous
manner. On the days when you walk past such people and
they are screaming and making wild gestures you begin to
question whether you need to find an alternate grocery store.
Case C: You get on a bus in Seattle for a trip downtown.
You do not expect someone to shoot the driver causing the
bus to take a deadly ride over the edge of a bridge.
Human interactions rest on the assumptions that much of
the behavior of fellow humans can be predetermined.
If humans can predict it, then I see no reason why
an "artifical intelligence" cannot be designed on
the basis of relatively simple methods that should
expect the norm (bus passengers should sit quietly)
or produce them (I a human-like AI must sit quietly).
Robert
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