tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post2459296899262900315..comments2024-03-14T11:50:14.761-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: Kasparov on the Significance of AI Playing Jeopardy!Darwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-88287746759138351942011-02-27T01:20:23.978-05:002011-02-27T01:20:23.978-05:00Certainly scientists and engineers have interests ...Certainly scientists and engineers have interests and goals with regard to the Mars Rover, in light of which it has been given certain features. And certainly it has ends in a broad sense of the term because of this. How much this carries over to making it reasonable to say the Rover itself has interests and goals, in anything other than a loosely analogous sense, is a thornier question.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698839146562734910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-71247104026121445092011-02-26T14:55:54.766-05:002011-02-26T14:55:54.766-05:00The Mars Rover has interests and goals. The goals...The Mars Rover has interests and goals. The goals are scientific: take rock and soil samples, record the weather, take pictures, and so on. The interests are self-preservation: if it sees an unusual rock at the bottom of a cliff, it should not drive off that cliff to get there.<br /><br />JoelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-88289500898014081172011-02-24T20:07:23.560-05:002011-02-24T20:07:23.560-05:00Joel,
It's pretty much inevitable that comput...Joel,<br /><br /><i>It's pretty much inevitable that computers will someday be smarter than us - as in, be able to interpret their surroundings and make rational decisions to defend their interests and pursue their goals with as at least as much intellectual acuity as us.</i><br /><br />I'm very divided as to that question. Certainly, the idea strikes me as interesting, but I'm honestly unsure as to whether computers will ever have "interests" to pursue. Certainly, I think that we'll probably get to a point where if you give a computer a specific objective and range of means, it will be able to do a highly optimized job of deciding what to do, but I'm unclear as to whether computers would ever be able to have the own goals in the way we mean the term.Darwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-13733364462090059812011-02-24T18:24:49.798-05:002011-02-24T18:24:49.798-05:00"Watson's approach is utterly alien to hu..."Watson's approach is utterly alien to human intelligence, and in many ways just underscores how different human thought and what a computer does are."<br /><br />It's pretty much inevitable that computers will someday be smarter than us - as in, be able to interpret their surroundings and make rational decisions to defend their interests and pursue their goals with as at least as much intellectual acuity as us. But they will never, ever be like us. We are motivated by hormones, spiritual longings, and physical needs that they aren't. There's more to humanity than intellect.<br /><br />JoelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-31597609485183096572011-02-24T14:39:26.558-05:002011-02-24T14:39:26.558-05:00Outstanding ... were we not just talking about thi...Outstanding ... were we not just talking about this?! Thanks for the link.Roma locuta esthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05195180790808891227noreply@blogger.com