What is Artificial Intelligence?
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Similarly, only the few can move towards a more objective understanding of the world. It can be done, but the difficulty involved ensures that only a few will ever succeed, just as in the more trivial examples above.
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So you view psychology to be related to "a more objective understanding of the world" then?Atreyu wrote:Only a few men can be rich. Only the few can be great athletes. Only the few will ever master quantum physics. And this is a statistical law.
Similarly, only the few can move towards a more objective understanding of the world. It can be done, but the difficulty involved ensures that only a few will ever succeed, just as in the more trivial examples above.
Certainly that is what eliminativst neurobiologists will say are up to.
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Yes, everything knowable is relative, but this is not at issue. What is is the idea that you are essentially comparing [let's use something like the, Intelligence Quotient, as an example] somebody with an IQ of 2 with another with an IQ of 4. Yes, the later is "more intelligent," but that makes virtually no difference.Atreyu wrote:Only a few men can be rich. Only the few can be great athletes. Only the few will ever master quantum physics. And this is a statistical law.
Similarly, only the few can move towards a more objective understanding of the world. It can be done, but the difficulty involved ensures that only a few will ever succeed, just as in the more trivial examples above.
The same logic would apply to those who have a "more objective understanding" of the world, e.g., the astrophysicist whom believe s/he has a more complete understanding of universal forces than does the average Joe.
The human mind is simply incapable of understand much of anything [and thank God for small favors!]. Imagine the havoc mankind might unleash on this poor planet if He was actually able to figure things out!
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Well, of course. All branches of science should move us towards a more objective understanding of things. And psychology is the most important branch of all in this respect. If one cannot be objective about oneself, how can one be more objective about the world in general?Chili wrote: So you view psychology to be related to "a more objective understanding of the world" then?
Yes, but one cannot be nearly as objective by studying physiology as one could be by studying psychology. Psychology is the study of the most basic tools (his own cognitive/perceptive apparatus) that the neurologist is using in his own particular studies.Chili wrote: Certainly that is what eliminativst neurobiologists will say are up to.
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What is your synopsis and what do you think of it?Jan Sand wrote: ↑May 9th, 2018, 11:12 am There was a TV series with Jacob Bronowski given in 1973 on the BBC called The Ascent of Man and its final episode can be seen at https://archive.org/details/theascentof ... gchildhood in which Bronowski, towards the end of the episode, startlingly speaks very clearly to the present time of the basic dispute between science and government and is somewhat related to the nature of artificial intelligence and the possible collapse of civilization which is much more apparent today. It is well worth seeing.
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I am much more interested in your opinions than a random piece of production.
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But do we have a thread where we actually TRY to define AI?
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Artificial intelligence seems to me the ability to independently seek and discover worthwhile relationships out of an inherent intent to seek out some sort of valuable meanings. In general, computers derive intent from the directions within their software. AI seems to be able to create its own software after being directed to respond to an input outlining a much more general intent.
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Whilst it tries to mimic dynamic and organic intelligences, it has no ability to offer novel and innovative responses.
Without volition, intention and a living sense AI can only be programmed to pretend intelligence but is holly limited to the imagination and capabilities of the humans that design it.
Unpredictable responses are not the result of invention, but of a random number generator. Otherwise responses are wholly predictable and replicable.
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Will it?
have you as time machine? Or are you a seer?
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