I think the term artificial intelligence is incorrect. What we're currently building is, IMO, artificial intellect.
I view intelligence as the capacity to use resources, including the intellect, wisely and creatively. The current system we're building have no self-awareness and no will, so they cannot really be intelligent.
If we want to build intelligent machines, we have to understand the architectures of the mind. We use memory as a sort of mental matter for the formulation of thoughts that we structure in a certain way to formulate ideas/concepts and then we go out and build things. We are builders because we are thinkers and we are conscious about being able to think.
But what is a thought, really? What is consciousness?
Look at the size of our brain next to the huge computers and data centers we're building for "AI". Our brain is small, yet was able to think about how to build these systems.
We believe we're going to develop "artificial intelligence" by building massive computers and data centers. How absurd is that?
Folks, to build intelligent machines, we have to build thinking machines and for this, we'll have to truly understand how the mind works and when we do this, I believe we'll be quite surprised.
> I think the term artificial intelligence is incorrect. What we're currently building is, IMO, artificial intellect.
The rest of your comment contradicts this statement.
Dictionary definition of intellect is "the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract matters". Dictionary definition for intelligence is "the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills".
Current AI has great difficulty in abstract matters/thought, let alone understanding something beyond simply a series of learned patterns.
> If we want to build intelligent machines, we have to understand the architectures of the mind.
We have intelligent machines now, many which outperform human capacity for specific tasks. If your talking about strong artificial intelligence, then I wouldn't necessarily disagree, but maybe it could go the other way. By developing strong AI, we can understand the architecture of the mind. Maybe strong AI can be developed with the intellect of a cat/dog, and that gives insight into the human mind.
> We believe we're going to develop "artificial intelligence" by building massive computers and data centers. How absurd is that?
No one who is knowledgeable about AI actually believes this (based on your definition of AI).
> Folks, to build intelligent machines, we have to build thinking machines and for this, we'll have to truly understand how the mind works and when we do this, I believe we'll be quite surprised.
You ask the question "what is a thought" above, then state we need to have thinking machines to make intelligent machines. One could argue machines today think, one could argue alphago 'thinks'. Using your definition of intelligence, we have AI today that meets your requirements. Wisdom is knowledge with good judgement and creativity is exploration with experimentation. There is plenty of academic work out there which covers all this.
I view intelligence as the capacity to use resources, including the intellect, wisely and creatively. The current system we're building have no self-awareness and no will, so they cannot really be intelligent.
If we want to build intelligent machines, we have to understand the architectures of the mind. We use memory as a sort of mental matter for the formulation of thoughts that we structure in a certain way to formulate ideas/concepts and then we go out and build things. We are builders because we are thinkers and we are conscious about being able to think.
But what is a thought, really? What is consciousness?
Look at the size of our brain next to the huge computers and data centers we're building for "AI". Our brain is small, yet was able to think about how to build these systems.
We believe we're going to develop "artificial intelligence" by building massive computers and data centers. How absurd is that?
Folks, to build intelligent machines, we have to build thinking machines and for this, we'll have to truly understand how the mind works and when we do this, I believe we'll be quite surprised.