A Human Baby Learns
> AI does not require the ability to dynamically program itself. That's
> what the neural net is for.
Yeah. If you think about it, all we really are is a brain. The body is like
a vehicle, getting us around to where we want to go, able to process fuel to
keep us alive, etc.
> You cannot reprogam how you see/taste/touch/hear/smell. These are our
> basic sensory tools, that we use to get input from our environment.
What makes a human being able to achieve sentience, whereas other creatures
(including dogs, cats) are not? Or do they? (I use "sentience" to mean not
only perception and feeling, but self-perception.) What does a human being
at birth understand? think? perceive? What is it about our hardware that
lets us grow up to be smarter than dolphins?
> Think of instinct as our basic set of tools/actions/reactions that we
> have at our disposal.
Yes, and we have to have autonomic functions as well.
Think about a human baby. Left on its own, it will perish. Nurtured, it can
eventually become a Nobel-prize winning physicist.
That same human baby has no control over its arms (initially)... so how does
it learn to control those arms, hands, and fingers, enough to play a
composition by Rachmaninov?!
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