Re: Artificial What?
>From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Artificial What?
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>I just realized how to better verbalize my approach to AI... listen up all
>you AI enthusiasts out there...
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>You cannot separate True Intelligence(tm) from sentience. And you must
>develop sentience first!!! The whole AI industry is trying to develop an
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>entity backwards by doing the intelligence first, when what we need is,
>first, a sentient being.
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>Here's dictionary.com's definition of intelligence:
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>in=B7tel=B7li=B7gence ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-tl-jns)
>n.
> 1. The capacity to acquire and apply knowledge.
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>The "capacity to acquire..." You cannot acquire what you cannot perceive.
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>dictionary.com defines sentient thusly:
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>sen=B7tient adj.
> 1.. Having sense perception; conscious
> 2.. Experiencing sensation or feeling.
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-A computer program can aquire data easily
-A computer program be aware of its own data and it can be programmed to
know that other data
exists
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>What does this further have to say about AI?
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>Well, developing AI in a computer is going to be interesting. When
>programming this AI brain, you can't count on any of the standard senses,
>except maybe vision and hearing. We can't do touch. We can't do smell.
>Vision can be done via a camera, and hearing via a microphone. The
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>can "sense" what I call a "digital data stream." Humans can't (yet).
-It wouldnt need to smell,taste or feel, all it would do is push pixels and
process data.And thats enough
of a task I'll wager.
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>Then there's the simulation approach... but that is WAY TOO INTENSIVE.
>Simulating reality is much more difficult than actually putting the AI
>entity into reality and letting it sense reality. I won't even go there
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>now. Reality is already there... why not use it? :)
-Have you ever had a discussion with someone, and though you seemed to be
disagreeing, you really were just rephrasing the other's arguments? Thas how
I classify most ai discussions.
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>The hardest thing to give is motivation. How do you motivate the entity?
>You've got to give it a reason. The reason we're alive? To experience joy.
>That's it. God made us so that we could enjoy a relationship with Him and
>with His creation. How will you motivate a sentient entity of your own
>making to be nice? to survive (if at all)?
Just program it to be motivated, give it states, timers and a series of
conditions that must be satisfied.
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>So, develop something that can receive input, give it "instincts" (basic,
>but overridable (as it learns), actions to various stimuli) and let it
>go..=
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>Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
-Gee I wish I could really hear Rob C's take on ai. But I dont see much
diversion from eu topics with him.Maybe he is a machine himself? Maybe just
some ai? No, just kidding
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