OpenEuphoria

RE: webnet & HAL9000

• Posted by "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com> Feb 14, 2002
• 502 views

Kat wrote:
> > > How do you define "requisites"...?
> > 
> > The "requisites" are the most basic elements required to sustain
> > an intelligence. It's just like in programming where you have to
> > break down every task to it's most basic elements.
> > 
> 
> But *humans* shouldn't be doing that.

Doing what?! In what context do you mean?

> Humans would have a biased opinion, 
> and be error-prone in the extreme.

Then it comes down to the fact, and what I believe, that HARDWARE is 
where it's at. We'll need to create a brain before we'll ever create 
intelligence.

> Witness again the 600 man-years on Cyc, 
> and Lenat failed *again*.

Shocker, right? ;)

> If the human doesn't pre-munge it,
> then the Ai must, and if it cannot incorporate it while
> it's running, then it's rather useless, isn't it?

I think one of the most critical things for an AI is the ability to 
gather data by itself... this means visual data, auditory data, tactile 
data, ALL kinds of sensory data which it will later utilize.

Look at a baby human... It is gathering data all the time, right outta 
the womb! It starts to note patterns, recurring events; it feels 
discomfort and instinctively* knows it needs fuel! And something built 
into its brain allows it to put it all in context, until eventually 
they're aware that they don't HAVE to do what mommy/daddy says... ;)

But can we, at our most advanced technological state, ever develop 
machinery that we can "turn on" and have it start "experiencing" its 
existence? That BIOS is going to be very complex, and it's only the 
utter beginning of the development of that man-made AI...

*Note that instinct is the programming an entity contains but DOESN'T 
KNOW HOW IT WORKS or that it even EXISTS! What are you going to do, 
block the MIE (Manmade Intelligent Entity)** from knowing certain parts 
of its code?! Instinct is going to be fun to program! ;)

**Kat, help me come up with a cool anagram(?) thingie that distinctly 
and succinctly defines the kind of entity we're discussing.