Comment AI Advances? (Score 1) 260
The same things were said 20 years ago, and 30 years ago, and look where we are now... Brute force chess playing programs.
As for the Turing test, yes, it might be possible to program a computer to fool a human, but does that mean that the computer can think? Does it mean that is has a consciousness? Does it mean it should have rights? Or does it just mean that it can fool humans... The Turing test is one of the most flawed AI tests, but it also happens to be the most famous.
I used to give the AI field the benefit of the doubt, but after taking a course in the philosophy of AI, I am a skeptic. There are so many things in volved in our thinking and consciousness that even we do not understand, how can we get a machine to do/become what we can't understand ourselves?
As for the Turing test, yes, it might be possible to program a computer to fool a human, but does that mean that the computer can think? Does it mean that is has a consciousness? Does it mean it should have rights? Or does it just mean that it can fool humans... The Turing test is one of the most flawed AI tests, but it also happens to be the most famous.
I used to give the AI field the benefit of the doubt, but after taking a course in the philosophy of AI, I am a skeptic. There are so many things in volved in our thinking and consciousness that even we do not understand, how can we get a machine to do/become what we can't understand ourselves?
