Re: Happy New Year, CAP!


Risujin wrote:
> JGCASEY wrote:
> >>>I don't buy the "more processing power" paradigm.
> >>>If you can describe exactly how the scaled-up
> >>>version will emerge into the desired behavior
> >>>then you could simply describe the scaled-up
> >>>version in the first place.
> >
> > Maybe, maybe not. I don't see it as a case of "scaling
> > up" so much as "adding to" what is already there and
> > this would require larger and more powerful processing.
> >
> > If intelligence is a set of skills higher intelligence
> > is simply more sophisticated and complex skills. Even
> > IQ tests now recognize that intelligence in one area
> > (skills in one area) do not mean the person has equal
> > skills in another area.
>
> The "what are you capable of?" definition is the
> common-sense definition of intelligence. In this
> sense Word 2003 is more intelligent than Word
> 2000 because it has more features (skills).
>
> I believe we need a change of terminology. What we
> are seeking isn't a collection of greater and greater
> specific skills but a system for acquiring and
> performing them. A goal-oriented, learning, decision
> making system capable of achieving greater levels of
> skills in an optimal fashion. This "true AI"
> definition refers to what should be properly called
> a cognitive system.
>
> > We can demonstrate an electronic spread *** with 64K
> > memory but modern spreadsheets have more skills added
> > which require more memory and processing power. The
> > old skills are still there. We can add numbers with
> > a hand calculator or a Pentium driven PC the result
> > is the same. But the Pentium driven PC can do more.
>
> We can add features to Excel ad infinitum making it
> more "intelligent" by your definition but it will never
> become a cognitive system without fundamental changes.


Yes I agree with that. And of course the "learning"
involves a programmer in the loop which means that
the "intelligence" comes from the programmer rather
than from the Excel program.

So maybe it is more than just adding skills, maybe
it is adding a particular type of skill. Maybe a
skill for adding skills? That is the ability to learn
how to do things all by itself as a result of some
internal needs and experience with its "world".

--
JC

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