Originally posted by Frencheneesz
my point exactly.... ?
Emulate, enhance, and replace completely.do you think it is possible for a computer to correctly emulate the human mind?
And a neuron is similarly simple. Now connect 100 billion of them together, and you can produce what many would recognize as complexity.No, a computer cannot do anything complex. A computer is a simple linear array of registers with a fetch and decode machine. It has no sensors, no brain, no motors.
At that time there was immense, but unrealistic, hope for the future of the computer with AI, but those early proponents soon became tremendously disillusioned when they could not produce anything like AI. Their fatal mistake was to completely underestimate the massive computing power that would be required. Even now we will require the equivalent of some 10,000 2GHz PCs to achieve equivalent processing power of the human brain. That is a level of power almost unimaginable in the 1958-1975 timeframe.I am not saying this lightly, I started working on AI in 1958 and gave it up in 1975.
In 1975 you would be quite right. But now I think you should update your perspective.That was when I realized that even if you had a program to emulate a brain, it would not do anything and would be worthless.
Then do so at your own peril. Many others around the world are very actively pursuing AI and with the much needed massive computing power on the near horizon AI will materialize much sooner than most expect. The continuing exponential increase in computing power will allow AI to appear and then supercede human intelligence very rapidly. Where does that leave humans? No longer the dominant intelligence on the planet.We should get rid of the idea.
Originally posted by Cris
We should stop comparing the brain to a computer. The idea evoked is that of the desktop machine that we all know. But the brain doesn’t have a single CPU executing one instruction at a time. It is more appropriate to think of each neuron as a small microprocessor and with 100 billion of them all operating in parallel and communicating with each other. An analogy to the internet is closer.
We have not failed, we've only found 10,000 ways that do not work.No, a computer cannot do anything complex. A computer is a simple linear array of registers with a fetch and decode machine. It has no sensors, no brain, no motors.
I am not saying this lightly, I started working on AI in 1958 and gave it up in 1975. That was when I realized that even if you had a program to emulate a brain, it would not do anything and would be worthless.
We should get rid of the idea.
Ha ha, don't worry, I believe you. And yup I'm concerned that I won't be able to upload before my brain deteriorates as well.There are several problems. The functions are low level and a lot are required. The cost is still too high. And nobody believes me.
The final problem is my brain may go before this gets done.
Imagine a human who has had all sensory input and communications methods severed and is in a true state of sensory deprivation. Ignoring the potential for madness, the intelligence can still process thoughts, make deductions, experience emotions, etc. What is removed is the ability to obtain new external data or to communicate any decisions.
Why not? If intelligence can arise naturally, I see no reason it can't arise artificially.I dislike the term AI. I don't think intelligence can be artificial.
No it doesn't. It implies it was created by man.This implies that it is not real.
Yes I agree. I’ll update my erroneous interpretation of the term.If intelligence can arise naturally, I see no reason it can't arise artificially.
It implies it was created by man.
I don't see why you have a problem with the term. It's fairly accurate.