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Originally Posted by peter12
The current paradigm regarding AI vs. Human intelligence is based on a fundamental logical fallacy. That the human mind processes information like a machine, and the human mind is constrained by biology. That is, machines have the capacity to advance, but we do not.
Deep Blue's victory was amazing, although not resounding, and IBM refused a rematch, even going so far as to dismantle Deep Blue. Now do you seriously believe the next round wouldn't have been much closer? Do you really think the human player wouldn't have responded differently?
If you do not understand the Wikipedia article that I posted, you don't understand AI, or human intelligence, which is my point. We have forgotten exactly what we are comparing machines to. Dreyfus' point was that AI intelligence was purely calculation power, which is not the fundamental basis of human intelligence, which is far more socially spatial and instinctual. So according to Dreyfus, who has essentially destroyed the theoretical basis of AI, we are building machines that do not copy us, but that we strive to copy instead, which is completely pointless.
Ultimately, what lies at the bottom of all of this is the utopianism of the futurists, like Kurzweil, who against all evidence posit the future of humanity as a cyborg singularity.
This is anti-human, and is why I remain completely unimpressed with these largely wasteful demonstrations.
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I don't exactly call a machine that could virtually eliminate false medical diagnoses "largely wasteful".
This is ultimately about creating a machine that compliments humans, where humans lack - sheer data memory and quick recall. The idea here is that this technology could be used so that a doctor could ask the computer a question, stating the patient's symptoms, and the computer could go through every medical journal ever written within a few seconds and come up with a diagnosis. No human could ever have that kind of knowledge. It would take more than a lifetime to read everything that Watson has programmed into it. Watson can go through all of that information in a couple seconds.