AI Challenges

AI Challenges
Thought provoking article via David Amerland 

Isn’t all of our media — including the amenities of the internet — serving us to externalize our memories, ideas, concepts and knowledge? So far and aside of some minor manipulation of data, our media technologies have not been capable of creating genuine and original new memories and knowledge on their own. So far.

Originally shared by David Amerland

"The Third Wave of Externalized Revolution

We have become exceedingly good at creating weak AI but a strong one is as far away from us, I believe, as ever. The reason lies in our understanding (or lack of) of what actually constitutes intelligence. It is neither the size of the brain (as the whale and the crow prove) nor the computational power that is brought to bear. 

As a matter of fact, at the moment, we are no more capable of creating a strong AI (one that is truly self-aware) than we are of creating artificial life, and, in many ways, these two are bound together. 

So, where does that leave us? Beyond the surprising and largely meaningless scaremongering of Hawking, Gates and Musk, it leaves where we always have been: at the gates of evolution, trying to devise new picklocks to break in. ;) 

This piece is pretty good: http://goo.gl/vUB8W5