[ExI] Searle and AI

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Sun Dec 27 21:24:47 UTC 2009


2009/12/27 Gordon Swobe <gts_2000 at yahoo.com>

> Even if Zeus handed us a concrete example of an artificially constructed
> machine with strong AI, we could not abstract from careful study of that
> machine a formal program to run on a software/hardware system that would
> enable that s/h system to also have strong AI. We would need instead to
> recreate that machine.
>

I am perhaps not following this thread closely enough to decide whether I
agree with that statement, but I suspect I do.

In fact, either one drops an exagerately anthropomorphic view of
"intelligence" (with projections such as "conscience", "agency", etc., which
are already quite problematic to extend to the other organic brains); or I
believe that the only way to deliver what he or she considers as "generally
intelligent" would be to create a relatively close emulation of a human
being.

Accordingly, it might be marginally easier to emulate at increasing levels
of fidelity a *given* human being (thus producing what for all practical
matters would end up being considered soon or later as un "upload" or a
"mental clone" of the original) rather than artificially recreating one from
scratch (i.e., probably by patching together arbitrary pieces of different
and/or "generic" individuals).

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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