In order to build an artificial intelligence, it must be built as human-like as possible. Without basic human 'ingredients', the resulting mind might not even be recognized as such. This boils down to the feeling that the goal is to build a mere copy of the human mind.
Why on earth, one might wonder, would anybody want to build a copy of the human mind? Isn't the original working fine? Isn't it superior to everything known? Isn't one's mind the most difficult thing to be examined by itself? What would be the use of such an artificial mind, that would need even more artificial means, only to stay human-like?
The only logical solution to this is to completely separate human from artificial intelligence, in order to build something entirely new. This naturally leads to the idea of a higher principle of Intelligence, that human intelligence is only one manifestation of (in order to distinguish between the traditional human intelligence and this new idea of a more general concept, I want to spell the latter with a capital I: Intelligence). Another one would be artificial intelligence, and another one still the intelligence developed on a planet many lightyears from here. Again, I remind you of the points just made. Considering these, how should a mind that is the result of evolution on an entirely different planet be similar to ours in any way? There must be similarities, but on a higher level: on the level of Intelligence (note the capital I).
In that hierarchy, AI is on the same level as human intelligence, together with animal intelligence and any other kind of intelligence that one might encounter.
_____________________
0 facebook:
Post a Comment