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Sunday, April 1, 2007

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So I watched this thing on the Discovery Channel about how computers and understanding of the human brain are going to radically change the future (I'm starting to sound like my religion teacher by using the word "radically" so often...). People are saying the usual things, that someday computers will surpass humans, that we'll be able to create superintelligent AI machines and so forth. However, using just simple logic, I've decided that's simply not possible. Observe:

What defines artificial intelligence? If you look it up on dictionary.com, you get many definitions, and they're all quite different and sometimes vague. All A.I. is is the ability to think like a human or intelligent animal (a dog or monkey rather than a pillbug, for example). This includes abilities such as making inferential deductions, learn from past experiences, and here's a good one, "creativity". Machines have already been created that can perform rudimentary forms of the first two, but creativity is harder to define. A machine can easily spit out a random choice from a given selection, but creativity requires that the creator comes up with something unlike what it's given. True creativity is beyond the unusual combination of previously created ideas, and involves the discovery of something untested. It's difficult for this to happen even in humans, because so much has already been tried. Computers are incapable of doing this, because they rely on information provided for them. Anything new they come up with is created randomly and by chance, not because of creative thinking and a unique set of experiences. Thus the very nature of computers makes it impossible for a computer with no biological material to be truly intelligent; it will always be "artificial", appearing to be intelligent, but not intelligent as humans are.

I'm really tired so I'll finish this later.
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