If machines can have artificial intelligence can they have artificial stupidity?
harry On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 3:02 AM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I said "operational definitions" are crucial to experiments and that's > virtually by definition. You, yourself, admitted it when you tried to > escape from an operational definition of intelligence by using art as a > proxy and then you went ahead and found yourself providing an operational > definition of art. > > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:57 PM, Eric Walker <eric.wal...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:41 PM, James Bowery <jabow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> They are necessary so you can perform experiments. If you don't like an >>> operational definition then you need to say why. >>> >> >> It seems like it is possible to make progress on a question like this >> without requiring a formal definition. Perhaps a similar question to >> whether artificial intelligence is possible is whether computers can create >> art. A well-conceived experiment might involve a panel of judges who use >> their experience and intuition, perhaps along with some guidelines, to >> judge submissions of "art," who then try to decide whether the submissions >> were from from a person or from a computer. A formal definition might seek >> to spell out exactly what art is so that we can tell with great assurance >> whether a computer has produced it. But art is something that is hard to >> define, and many people produce very poor art. >> >> I remember reading about a contest where they had a person who served as >> a judge on one side of a terminal and either a computer or a person on the >> other, and the judge had to decide whether he or she was interacting with a >> computer. This seems like a test and one that can sort out whether >> artificial intelligence has been achieved to a certain extent (the computer >> fools most of the judges over a period of trials), without weighing down >> the challenge with the need to spell out what intelligence is. >> >> Eric >> >> >
