[ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

[spike]

From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Henry Rivera
Subject: Re: [ExI] Whistling past the graveyard

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:30 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
> ... “When we 
> write a computer chess program which can defeat the person who 
> programmed it, then we have achieved machine intelligence.”
> That was in 1956.  How much that standard has changed.
>

>...Modifying benchmarks in response to our better understanding of the complexity of the tasks at hand is understandable and arguably necessary given the premature declarations we have seen referenced such as the one above...Even if we concede moving of goalposts being somewhat unreasonable/unfair, I'm with the skeptic who posted here recently representing the opposition, I forget who, in believing we are very far from developing strong AI, if it's even possible...-Henry

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I can think of one definition of AI which would never move.  If we do accomplish true AGI, it will self-improve recursively.  This is the singularity.  When or if that happens, the debate is over.

spike