¿ wrote:tycho wrote:¿ wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:I think "intelligence" and "mimicry" are different. the larger question of whether "it" knows "its" doing these things is a largely unappreciated one. Does AlphaGo "appreciate" go? does Deep blue appreciate chess? what we have is advanced mimicry of intelligence - perhaps a better question to ask is "does a very very very good painting or model of a person become a person? anyway the whole strong AI discussion is moot since it's not a question of "if" but "when" and the concerns of "old scientists" will be taken into consideration.
What makes a person? What's consciousness?
I think we're beyond mimicry.
until we can define and measure that - we cannot create something that mimics it.
Not true. Mimicry is possible without definition. it's not... give an example.
A child will mimic parent's behavior without defining the behavior. For example, children of a parent with bipolar condition will tend to be bipolar through behavioral learning. And by the way learning doesn't require definition or consciousness.
tycho wrote:
Building human traits into robots and AI. That's what AI has always been about.
It's a bit difficult to deal with this 'enthymeme'.
The ability to learn and mimic has to be defined and programmed into AI.Without that it can't mimic without definition and without definition and measurement we can't tell if it has gone beyond what it is mimicking.
Let me introduce evidence from the making of a neurotic program as illustrated in a book called 'Artificial intelligence and natural man' by Margaret Boden.
Your idea is that neurotic behavior should be defined in such a program... but this program I'm referring to doesn't have such a definition. Instead, neurotic behavior emerges from independent variables.
As for limits; humans don't know the limits of neurotic behavior. Even defining neurotic behavior is a problem. One would have to consult a diagnostic manual and tally a number of symptoms from a general list.
Finally, intelligence is the ability to create definitions and form behaviors. Ask yourself for example, why couldn't Victor of Aveyron be socialized?