Well, there are a few features of human intelligence with something to recommend them, e.g. the ability to make inferences and creative leaps, robustness and what not. I suspect that duplicating human intelligence in a machine, in addition to teaching us a few things about ourselves, would be an intermediate step towards creating a thinking entity which exhibited the desireable characteristics of both human and machine intelligence, say, something that could deal with vague and fragmentary data and do so creatively without tiring and orders of magnitude faster than human thinking. Something that could dream up a whacky new concept and quickly generate detailed simulations to test out hundreds or thousands of variations on the idea in just a few seconds.
-KMO
carlw wrote:
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> Why do we want to mimic human intelligence? What possible use is a computer
> that gets bored, gets horny, who doesn't feel like working right now, and
> who doesn't know what to do with Sunday afternoon?
>
> TheHermit <Yawning>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-virus@lucifer.com
> > [mailto:owner-virus@lucifer.com]On Behalf
> > Of Wade T. Smith
> > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 6:34 PM
> > To: Church of Virus
> > Subject: virus: Zippy says it all
> >
> >
> > Well, as if he didn't say it all before....
> >
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> > http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/sfgate/zippy.cgi?weekday=6
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