I have trouble with this definition to be honest. I can’t help be nit-picky. I don’t really like treating computers (including my own brain) as black box functions. I prefer to think of them as physical systems with many inputs and outputs (that are not obvious).
There are many actions I can’t do, I can’t consume 240V electricity or emit radio frequency em radiation. Is a power supply an external resource for a computer, are my hands an external resource for my brain (they allow more actions)?
Cutting off my hands would severely curtail my ability to solve problems unrelated to actually having hands (no more making notes on problems and typing a program to solve a problem would be a little bit trickier)
Okay so lets try a thought experiment: Give the AI a human body with a silicon brain that runs off the glucose in the blood supply. Brains use 20 watts or so (my Core 2 Duo laptop is about 12W when not doing much (although that includes a screen)). Give it no ethernet port, no wifi. Give it eyes and ears with that take the same data as a human. Then we could try to compare it roughly with a humans capabilities, to discover whether it is more intelligent or not. One major issue; If it doesn’t perform the correct autonomic functions of the human brain (breathing etc), the body is likely to die and not be able to solve many problems. It is this kind of context sensitivity that makes me despair at trying to pin an intelligence number on a system.
However this model isn’t even very useful for predicting the future. Computers do have gigabit ethernet, they can easily expand to take more power. Even if it took an age to learn how to control a pen to answer questions it doesn’t help us.
This is unsatisfactory. I’ll have to think about this issue some more.
I have trouble with this definition to be honest. I can’t help be nit-picky. I don’t really like treating computers (including my own brain) as black box functions. I prefer to think of them as physical systems with many inputs and outputs (that are not obvious).
There are many actions I can’t do, I can’t consume 240V electricity or emit radio frequency em radiation. Is a power supply an external resource for a computer, are my hands an external resource for my brain (they allow more actions)?
Cutting off my hands would severely curtail my ability to solve problems unrelated to actually having hands (no more making notes on problems and typing a program to solve a problem would be a little bit trickier)
Okay so lets try a thought experiment: Give the AI a human body with a silicon brain that runs off the glucose in the blood supply. Brains use 20 watts or so (my Core 2 Duo laptop is about 12W when not doing much (although that includes a screen)). Give it no ethernet port, no wifi. Give it eyes and ears with that take the same data as a human. Then we could try to compare it roughly with a humans capabilities, to discover whether it is more intelligent or not. One major issue; If it doesn’t perform the correct autonomic functions of the human brain (breathing etc), the body is likely to die and not be able to solve many problems. It is this kind of context sensitivity that makes me despair at trying to pin an intelligence number on a system.
However this model isn’t even very useful for predicting the future. Computers do have gigabit ethernet, they can easily expand to take more power. Even if it took an age to learn how to control a pen to answer questions it doesn’t help us.
This is unsatisfactory. I’ll have to think about this issue some more.