Matthias: I think here you can see that automated mapping between different
faces is
possible and the computer can smoothly morph between them. I think, the
performance is much better than the imagination of humans can be.
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA
Matthias,
Perhaps we're having difficulties communicating in words about a highly
visual subject. The above involves morphing systematically from a single
face. It does not involve being confronted with two different faces or
objects randomly chosen/positioned and finding/recognizing the similarities
between them . My God, if it did, computers would have no problems with
visual object (or facial) recognition.
Of course, morphing operations by computers are better, i.e. immensely more
detailed and accurate, than anything the human mind can achieve - better
at, if you like, the mechanical *implementation* of imagination. (But bear
in mind that it was the imagination of the programmer that decided in the
above software, which face should be transformed into which face. The
software could not by itself choose or create a totally new face to add to
its repertoire without guidance).
What rational computers can't do is find similarities between disparate,
irregular objects - via fluid transformation - the essence of imagination. I
repeat - computers can't do this -
http://www.bearskinrug.co.uk/_articles/2005/09/16/doodle/hero.jpg
and therein lies the central mechanism of analogy and metaphor.
Rather than simply objecting to this, the focus should be on *how* to endow
computers with imagination.
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agi
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