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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by mattnewton on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:03PM (#23793626)
Maybe I don’t understand your point, but our senses are also compressed to some extent. Your synapses fire or don’t fire, providing digitized input for some of your senses like hearing. At any point there is a discrete amount of hormones in your body. etc etc. That doesn’t seem categorically different from any man made sensor.
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by jchrisa on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:13PM (#23793774)
Our sensorium could be indistinguishable from how it'd be in a simulation without impacting my point. Software can hop from host to host (all Turing machines can simulate each other) but living intelligence is embodied.

Because of this, no matter how "smart" computers get, we can't trust them not to do stupid stuff. They are smart like that kid in high school who comes up with a formula to turn the world into silly putty, and is stupid enough to use it. There is more than one kind of intelligence, here the argument is that some kinds of intelligence require having skin in the game.

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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by sgillen on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:21PM (#23793885)
But would it be impossible to have artificial “skin in the game”? Is there no robot body that could serve this purpose?
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by selestify on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:22PM (#23797268)
Why isn’t computer hardware already as “embodied” in the physical world as our brain matter is?
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by mcguire on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:40PM (#23797414)
We can't trust people not to do stupid stuff.
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Re:Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized by D-Coder on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:16AM (#23800006)
> They are smart like that kid in high school who comes up with a formula to turn the world into silly putty, and is stupid enough to use it.

So that kid isn't intelligent?

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