Earlier I said we are seeing things that are like what we make. But that’s not a very useful definition implementation-wise.
My own approach to implementation is to define intelligence as the results of a particular act—“thinking”—and then introspect to see what the individual elements of that act are, and implement them individually.
Yes, I went to Uni and was told intelligence was search, and all my little Prolog programs worked, but I think they were oversimplifying. They were unacknowledged Platonists, trying to find the hidden essence, trying to read God’s mind, instead of simply looking at what is (albeit through introspection) and attempting to implement it.
All very naive and 1800s of me, I know. Imagine using introspection! What an unthinkable cad. Well pardon me for actually looking at the thing I’m trying to program.
Earlier I said we are seeing things that are like what we make. But that’s not a very useful definition implementation-wise.
My own approach to implementation is to define intelligence as the results of a particular act—“thinking”—and then introspect to see what the individual elements of that act are, and implement them individually.
Yes, I went to Uni and was told intelligence was search, and all my little Prolog programs worked, but I think they were oversimplifying. They were unacknowledged Platonists, trying to find the hidden essence, trying to read God’s mind, instead of simply looking at what is (albeit through introspection) and attempting to implement it.
All very naive and 1800s of me, I know. Imagine using introspection! What an unthinkable cad. Well pardon me for actually looking at the thing I’m trying to program.