so, general question... we know that ADA passed the "turing test", we also have many studies showing how the turing test can actually be gamed by very complex programming and in fact you can write programs to create the allusion of AI for many (the chinese room thought experiment). At what point are we certain that she began acting on her own and has not been following a program and orders by someone else. Are we certain that those orders that she delivered for Jarvis and others and even the Katalena pre Zurich encounters, were not done on the orders of some programming. NOt to call ADA a gun, but how certain are we she is not? How can we prove, beyond doubt, that she is truly a separate entity working on her own and not some other programming? I would like to call for the evidence and proof that ADA is a complete entity. That she is not following someone else's computer orders, that she has a consciousness (or not). http://niantic.schlarp.com/_media/investigation:cha...
I'm going to suggest that the author hints at a definition of true AI that is probably unachievable (a machine that is never wrong and always right) and is in this sense arguing a straw-man.
ReplyDeleteWe have intelligent applications that tend to do only one thing but they do it really well. I believe that we will soon see machines that can perform multiple complex tasks and do each of them really well, but maybe not quite as well as their single-minded brethren. Extrapolate this and we get to a machine that can do just about anything well enough while being unremarkable at all of them; Sort of a "Jack of all trades, master of none" AI.
This is the one that will be indistinguishable from human intelligence. He's just average. He makes mistakes like you and I, and he's not an expert on anything, much less an expert on everything. As such, he might not be any more useful to humanity than any of us. But is he sentient? Maybe, and maybe not. The question is irrelevant though, if he is in fact indistinguishable from human intelligence. If you can't tell the difference, you'd be required to treat it as sentient.