<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">>John, do you really have trouble seeing the distinction between specialized intelligence and general intelligence?<</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">The easiest way I have of conceptualizing this is in terms of an autistic savant. They are often capable of remarkable feats of memory, spatial cognition and even data analysis. But we rarely refer to them as intelligent, because they may not be able to tie their own shoes or tell you what day of the week it is. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">That being said, Watson is a savant like none we've ever seen before, and it makes sense to me to get excited about him. We're building this thing from the ground up, and if this is not a concrete step forward in developing fully sapient AI (and I'm no expert and can't state definitively whether it is, though it seems on the surface to be so) it is a HUGE step forward in terms of creating a general societal awareness of AI--where it is at and where it can go and what its applications might be. </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">And as anyone here who has ever fought to get funding for a project knows, the latter is just as important--maybe more so--than the former. <br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/16 Dave Sill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">2011/2/16 John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonkc@bellsouth.net" target="_blank">jonkc@bellsouth.net</a>></span><div class="im"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I would humbly like to suggest that June 23 (Alan Turing's birthday by the way) be turned into a international holiday called "Image Recognition Appreciation Day". On this day we would all reflect on the intelligence required to recognize images. It is important that this be done soon because although computers are not very good at this task right now that will certainly change in the next few years. On the day computers become good at it the laws of physics in the universe will change and intelligence will no longer be required for image recognition.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So if we ever intend to salute the brainpower required for this skill it is imperative we do it now while we can.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>John, do you really have trouble seeing the distinction between specialized intelligence and general intelligence? Do you think Deep Blue or Watson could pass the Turing Test?</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dave</div><div><br></div></div>
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