Imagination? Inference? (Score 0)

"AI" is not "I" until it can perform logical inference and imagine possibilities.

For example, it needs to be able to "see" that a conslusion follows from certain premises when that conclusion has never before been a part of its experience.

For example:
- things that fly have wings
- a man with wings could possibly fly

I'd like to see a program that comes up with that, having as input only sensory experience of flying things and of men. First it would need to form an abstraction of flight and then it would need to form a motivation for experimentally applying that abstraction to abstractions where it is absent.

And then there is the whole issue of self-consciousness...