[ExI] AI Motivation revisited.

[john clark]

On Thu, 6/30/11, Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com> wrote:

"What I think is reasonable, and corresponds to everyday experience, is
to expect that a PC in comparison with other systems, such as organic
brains, be incredibly faster at some tasks (say, arithmetics), and
incredibly slower at some other (say, pattern recognition or neural
network emulation)."
Organic brains may work by neural networks but they are no better at emulating one than a non organic metallic computer, in fact they're not nearly as good; if you doubt that then look at a very very small network of only a few hundred elements and through pure visualization (or "emulation" if you prefer that word) predict how this network will behave. It's hard as hell, we're just not very good at that; electronic computers can do it much better.

As for pattern recognition we still have an edge over the machines, but I doubt our superiority will last another decade. 

 John K Clark


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