<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><div><blockquote type="cite"> Isolated capability peaks mean nothing.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Nothing? The pattern is always the same. Solving calculus problems required intelligence, beating a Chess Grandmaster required intelligence, being a great research Librarian required intelligence, and beating a Jeopardy champion required intelligence; but then computers could do these things better than humans and suddenly we found that these activities had absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. How odd. </div><div><br></div></font></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"></font> It ain't AI until it's competitive with human jobs. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Many members of our species won't be satisfied even then. </div><div>And so just before he was sent into oblivion for eternity the last surviving human being turned to the Jupiter Brain and said "You're not 'REALLY' as smart as me".</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>*All*<br>human jobs, across the board. Whether CEO or plumber.<br><br>Isolated capability peaks mean nothing. You can't fill in<br>a landscape with enough peaks. Doesn't work that way.<br><br>A human baby starts with very little, and gradually floods <br>the capability landscape on its own. Any artificial equivalent<br>needs to be able to do that at least.<br><br>-- <br>Eugen* Leitl <a href="<a href="http://leitl.org">http://leitl.org</a>">leitl</a> <a href="http://leitl.org">http://leitl.org</a><br>______________________________________________________________<br>ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 <a href="http://www.ativel.com">http://www.ativel.com</a> <a href="http://postbiota.org">http://postbiota.org</a><br>8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>