Just another of those "Can A.I. ever be created"? threads/poll

[Gary Childress]

It's why I distinguished between intelligence and consciousness. There's no doubt that computation is required to distinguish blue from not blue. We don't know what physical chemistry is required to generate the qualia.

I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[El_Machinae]

No worries. But remember, I see no reason to assume those necessary forces cannot be mechanically emulated.

 

[warpus]

We're pretty much biological machines, aren't we? I don't see a reason why we can't (eventually) duplicate all the things that we do, with that in mind.

 

[red_elk]

There is a project to simulate nematode. This won't be an artificial intelligence yet, but if successful, this project will create a digital copy of a living organism, which will supposedly behave like a real one. In artificially created environment instead of what we consider as real world.

http://www.artificialbrains.com/openworm
http://www.openworm.org/

Possibly in the future we will be able to create more complex virtual organisms or tissues to test or invent new medications.
There's a lot of possible application of this technology.

 

[El_Machinae]

Oh! We have to be careful in AI conversations. Emulate is not the same thing as simulate.

Emulation is using a different process to get the same output (whether it's information processing or a mechanical outcome)

Simulation is a mathematical model of the process. A simulation will not cause the outcome being modeled. An emulation will.

 

[red_elk]

You are right, thank you for clarification.