From: Bryan Moss (bryan.moss@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 10:38:44 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> Which is more important: The next level up in programming languages, or
> a EURISKO-like reusable AI core?
To say the mind is software is a misleading analogy. Yes, it's Turing
computable as most things probably are. But the two architectures of the
modern computer and the brain are completely different. To think that you
can sit down at a computer and program it to act like a human brain is
absolute insanity (typewriter/monkey analogies spring to mind). Some
AI-researchers go so far as to give no consideration to brain structure
claiming that the 'hardware' is not important. The field has some merit but
it will never produce a human-like or human-equivalent intelligence.
BM
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