San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ of AIDS

Re:San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ ... by arethuza on Thursday May 19, 2011 @07:15AM (#2563562)

"Strong AI is impossible"

What makes you think that? Given that we have one class of systems that have evolved general intelligence I can see no reason why we can't engineer others. This may, of course, be rather difficult but I'm not aware of any good argument that engineering a general intelligence is impossible for fundamental physical or logical reasons.

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Re:San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ ... by henrikschroder on Thursday May 19, 2011 @11:28AM (#2564214)

Well, it's based on a bit of a philosophical cop-out, but basically anything that claims to be strong AI will always only be a philosophical zombie. It might behave intelligent, it might claim to be intelligent and conscious, but it's impossible to prove that it actually is intelligent and conscious, since it's impossible to objectively measure or describe consciousness.

In short, I'm with Searle. We can never have strong AI, but we can certainly have weak AI.

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Re:San Francisco man becomes first in history to be ‘cured’ ... by joebadmo on Thursday May 19, 2011 @01:10PM (#2564623)

Isn't that just a denial of the terms/definitions? Isn't it also a solipsistic argument, i.e. doesn't it equally apply to all other people?

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