Comments on: What If Wednesday – Artificial Intelligence

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:07:44 +0000

*waves hello to fragileheart*
Funny that you mention that, I had a similar thought when I was pondering what to write.

I have to say the idea still scares me LOL *shudders* yet annoyingly at the same time still interests me too *hehe*.
Stuart

By: fragileheart

fragileheart — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:52:50 +0000

haha I can't believe I missed this post! I prefer to take on a philosophical outlook on such a subject. I think that while there are an infinite number of creative possibilities that eventually, we humans will come across them - maybe not in our generation but in general, as humans, we will come across all creative possibilities that will ever exist. Now the great thing about artificial intelligence is that it would have the ability to hold more information about what has 'been done' as well, it would be able to 'calculate' all these different possibilities and almost be able to pick out (as if from a list) what hasn't been done. I dunno if that makes any sense... I think could just be rambling.. lol fragilehearts last blog post..Monday Madness: Pink for October

By: Stuart

Stuart — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:14:29 +0000

Haha well I am glad to hear that, life without weird thoughts would be utterly boring in my opinion.

Ahh while it would be weird… it got you thinking didn’t it? *grins*
Stuart

By: keithmaxx

keithmaxx — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:11:40 +0000

Oh you're not the only one, Stuart, though putting a machine through human schooling would be... weird. keithmaxxs last blog post..Wonders of the Sea

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:57:02 +0000

Hi Keithmaxx,
Yup your comments did come through. You know it is interesting you mention that point of ethics and life values. I have often had the weird thought that, if an artificial intelligence was ever created, to teach it that sort of thing we would have to put it through primary and high school so to speak.

I know… I know… I do have some weird thoughts LOL.
Stuart

By: keithmaxx

keithmaxx — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:48:57 +0000

Did my previous comment in this post come through? I just posted one and I don't see it here... I'm really interested about how this discussion goes. keithmaxxs last blog post..Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ Review

By: keithmaxx

keithmaxx — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:47:23 +0000

The thing with machines running "intelligence" on their own, whether creativity or technicality-wise would be that humans would have less say on how or where this "creative musings" or "intellectual exercises" would lead to. After all, it's not like programmers could easily define key human issues like ethics and life values now, could they? keithmaxxs last blog post..Tokimeki Memorial ~Only Love~ Review

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:55:59 +0000

I have to agree with you there Erin, however my inner geek also wants to see just what AI could be capable of.

What can I say, my inner geek rules my brain hahaha.
Stuart

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:13:05 +0000

The whole artificial intelligence thing still worries me a bit, maybe I've just seen and read too many horror stories about it. Have to admit, would be interesting to see what limits an AI being had in regards to creativity and ingenuity. I would hope that humans still had the advantage in this area! I kind of hope that AI takes off after my time, I wouldn't want to see people losing their jobs to computers and everything becoming automated. Erins last blog post..Cruisey six months

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 21:52:02 +0000

Hi Karen, I am glad that you found the post interesting. As I said in my original post it will take me a few weeks to really fine tune how I want to run What if Wednesdays but I will get there.

Back to the task at hand though. I like your thoughts but I am curious, why do yo uthink it would not surpass the human ability for creativity? As a note I am not challenging you here by any means I am just curious to hear more of your thoughts.

Stuart

By: Karen Zemek

Karen Zemek — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:39:07 +0000

When I saw this article, my first thought was, "Oh, good, this should be interesting." It did not disappoint! Must admit, I never thought about this before. If such a being could be created with the same capacity as a human, I would tend to think it would not surpass the creativity humans possess. Karen Zemeks last blog post..Thank You to Our September Commenters!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:23:41 +0000

Hi John,
I guess this is true, perhaps this might be part of an underlying problem, it might just begin to develop and learn without us actually realising it at the time.

Thanks for the link I will check it out.
Stuart

By: John Metcalf

John Metcalf — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:25:29 +0000

I’m not sure if Artificial Intelligence is something we can just create. Perhaps one day AI will spontaneously evolve from something the Artificial Life guys are working on. If you’re interested, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life for further info.

John

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