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Henry Brighton

Introducing Artificial Intelligence

  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    The big questions of “mental processes” tackled by AI are bound to a number of disciplines – psychology, philosophy linguistics and neuroscience. AI’s goal of constructing machinery is underpinned by logic, mathematics and computer science. A significant discovery in any one of these disciplines could impact on the development of AI.
  • Cheptai Milkahhas quoted6 months ago
    So, for Weak AI, the model is a useful tool for understanding the mind; for Strong AI, the model is a mind
  • Cheptai Milkahhas quoted6 months ago
    AI has one foot in science and one in engineering
  • Cheptai Milkahhas quoted6 months ago
    An agent is something capable of intelligent behaviour. It could be a robot or a computer program.
  • Cheptai Milkahhas quoted6 months ago
    he holy grail of Artificial Intelligence is to understand man as a machine. Artificial Intelligence also aims to arrive at a general theory of intelligent action in agents: not just humans and animals, but individuals in the wider sense.
  • mrshumskyhas quoted5 years ago
    The AI problem is one of the hardest science has ever undertaken.” AI has one foot in science and one in engineering.
  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    What sets AI apart from other attempts to understand the mechanisms behind human and animal cognition is that AI aims to gain understanding by building working models. Through the synthetic construction of working models, AI can test and develop theories of intelligent action
  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    Artificial Intelligence is a huge undertaking. Marvin Minsky (b. 1927), one of the founding fathers of AI, argues: “The AI problem is one of the hardest science has ever undertaken.” AI has one foot in science and one in engineering.
  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    Imagine being able to leave your body and shifting your mental life onto machinery that has better long-term prospects than the constantly ageing organic body you currently inhabit. This possibility is entertained by Transhumanists and Extropians.
  • Daria Zaytsevahas quoted6 years ago
    Perhaps our intellectual capacity is limited by the design of our brain. Our brain structure has evolved over millions of years. There is absolutely no reason to presume it cannot evolve further, either through continued biological evolution or as a result of human intervention through engineering.
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