Comments on: Mass Producing Intelligence

By: hthth

hthth — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:41:48 +0000

Hi Eli,

thanks for asking that question. I thought it was worth more than a few words, so I’ve dedicated a whole post to the answer Let me know if it’s still unclear, or if you disagree!

Glad I managed to make you realize new things. That’s the highest reward of all.

By: Eli James

Eli James — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:59:48 +0000

Hello hththt … just asking about content here – what did you have in mind when you wrote that:

‘the countless fields of science; medicine, biology, mathematics, electronics and so on — all have one thing in common: Intelligence.’

I’m requesting clarification, actually: The intelligence of what? Of the scientists involved in making past breakthroughs? Of the individuals that are learning the science? If so, how is artificial intelligence connected to your earlier point of how intelligence powers the fields of science?

It seems slightly incongrous to me, though if I mentally erase the introduction I found the remaining paragraphs to be focused and informative, teaching me new things that I hadn’t thought about.

For that I thank you.

By: John Pozadzides

John Pozadzides — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:20:19 +0000

Look, I don’t care if it’s artificial or not. If you can bottle me up some of that intelligence I’ll take it!

God knows, I sure could use some more…

By: hthth

hthth — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:46:17 +0000

That’s a great question Kuiper. I’m quite sure we’ll start perceiving robots as having a culture in some form or another, long before they come close to anything resembling a consciousness (my point being that it might happen sooner than later). We do, after all, notice culture-like traits in a few other, lesser, species.

You should check out Minsky’s (somewhat related) paper on “Communication with Alien Intelligences“. It provides some foundation for understanding what different intelligences have in common. Easy and quick read.

By: KuiperCliff

KuiperCliff — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:43:50 +0000

As someone interested in “culture”, which is a function of intelligence, I wonder what culture(s) might arise from other intelligences, “artificial” or not.

By: hthth

hthth — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:29:27 +0000

Indeed you're right Steve; we have the Bible and other old beliefs to thank for people feeling human creations are somehow unnatural. I mention it in my article on AI in everyday discussions — you might like that one. I'm not sure what you are referring to/in what context you mean the last sentence? -h

By: SteveH

SteveH — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:34:07 +0000

The only reason Artificial intelligence is called artificial is because we’ve been taught that what man does is never natural. When of course it cant be anything other than natural.

The technology is at the infant intelligence in the pre self recognition stage?

Hmmmmmmm