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**Parihaka** · 10-15-2005, 07:34 AM

Artificial intelligence is much over-rated as a milestone. For computer based 'intelligence' which is what we are talking here, we don't need a machine for solving philosophical questions, we need one to organise all the toilet cleaning robots, or effectively move a cargo spaceship through the asteroid belt while organising thousands of mining robots. These aren't higher brain functions. Anything that can mimic the intuitive characteristics of humans (or for that matter frogs) lower brain stem functions will do nicely. In this way we also avoid that 'machine-intelligence-takes-over-world-kills-humans' crapola that keeps popping up. We can happily avoid all the killer mind stuff until we're ready to move into a machine based consciousness ourselves, and that has to be a wee while away yet.

Logic is a very useful tool for dealing with the minutae of how to go about this but what I want to know here is how does 'intuition' begin, how do you build it? I know we now have programmes that learn, is this all that is required?

10-15-2005, 07:34 AM	#5 (permalink)
Parihaka Moderator Join Date: 11-10-04 Location: Te Ika a Maui Posts: 9,728 Country:	Artificial intelligence is much over-rated as a milestone. For computer based 'intelligence' which is what we are talking here, we don't need a machine for solving philosophical questions, we need one to organise all the toilet cleaning robots, or effectively move a cargo spaceship through the asteroid belt while organising thousands of mining robots. These aren't higher brain functions. Anything that can mimic the intuitive characteristics of humans (or for that matter frogs) lower brain stem functions will do nicely. In this way we also avoid that 'machine-intelligence-takes-over-world-kills-humans' crapola that keeps popping up. We can happily avoid all the killer mind stuff until we're ready to move into a machine based consciousness ourselves, and that has to be a wee while away yet. Logic is a very useful tool for dealing with the minutae of how to go about this but what I want to know here is how does 'intuition' begin, how do you build it? I know we now have programmes that learn, is this all that is required? Last edited by Parihaka : 10-15-2005 at 07:39 AM.