Amidst reading Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, looking into Found in translation: Microsoft tool talks pretty and Ken telling me about Microsoft research’s stereoscopic vision based distance calculator, I was wondering how long it will take Artificially Intelligent systems to comprehensively capture (or mimic) the generation of novelty in human minds. The same old question arise, could intelligence be formulated? The fuzzy situations we humans deal everyday and the diversity provided by our out-of-the-box thinking, could it be mimicked or portrayed in a machine? Or the question might be, is it even needed to depict this behavior to exhibit intelligence? May be our intelligence has anomalies from cognitive science perspective as alternate lifestyles couldn’t be justified rationally? I believe that probabilistic analysis of all possibilities or even heuristic approach in game theory doesn’t lead to intelligence. With a node range of 8 moves or more, if an “intelligent” program can formulate the possible moves and start predicting and blocking the moves towards a chess mate, would it be called intelligence? May be so, but still not human intelligence. To mimic this trait we’d have to simulate forgetfulness with very high hybrid (voice, imaging, sensory) information processing, memorization and retrieval speeds however today’s Floating point operation frequency (fops count) is not up to par. Here is an interesting logic theorem:Thinking is a species of computation. (FUN) A Turing machine can compute any computable function. (TuringChurch thesis) Digital computers implement Turing machines. Therefore, Digital computers can think.
Searle's Chinese Box: The Chinese Room Argument and Artificial Intelligence by Larry Hauser
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