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**DJkillos** · 09-01-2012, 04:12 PM

Hmmm, I am not sure I agree with what was said above above AI being similar to the way we think, especially given the computational processor differences and the fact that most AI is not actually intelligent, but rather mimics being "smart".

The processor differences aren't important. Computers are Turing Complete and so are we. We do our processing through neural nets, but neural computers can be simulated on ordinary computers and ordinary computers can be simulated on neural computers, so there is nothing in principle that one can do the other can't. You are right to say that most AI is not actually intelligent - the term has been used for all manner of really quite stupid things in washing machines and the like, and it's got to the point that the term AGI has had to be coined (artificial general intelligence) to make a distinction between the simple stuff and the serious attempts to build human-level AI. Most of the stuff that's done in AI is of the instinct-style variety, whereas AGI is concerned with a proper thinking machine which can turn its mind (so to speak) to anything new that's thrown at it.

09-01-2012, 04:12 PM	#15
DJkillos Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 382 Senior Member	Hmmm, I am not sure I agree with what was said above above AI being similar to the way we think, especially given the computational processor differences and the fact that most AI is not actually intelligent, but rather mimics being "smart". The processor differences aren't important. Computers are Turing Complete and so are we. We do our processing through neural nets, but neural computers can be simulated on ordinary computers and ordinary computers can be simulated on neural computers, so there is nothing in principle that one can do the other can't. You are right to say that most AI is not actually intelligent - the term has been used for all manner of really quite stupid things in washing machines and the like, and it's got to the point that the term AGI has had to be coined (artificial general intelligence) to make a distinction between the simple stuff and the serious attempts to build human-level AI. Most of the stuff that's done in AI is of the instinct-style variety, whereas AGI is concerned with a proper thinking machine which can turn its mind (so to speak) to anything new that's thrown at it.
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