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Re:Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turi... by DannoHung on Friday April 13, 2012 @04:45PM (#3838772)
You don't want an AI, you want an artificial genius who can handle any task.
Re:Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turi... by fusiongyro on Friday April 13, 2012 @05:02PM (#3838850)
I think the difference is undirected AI. We're getting quite good at defining a task, like voice recognition, and applying AI to solve it, but we still have basically no idea how to handle undirected human-like intelligence. And I think that's perfectly fine.
Re:Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turi... by DannoHung on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:24AM (#3841088)
No, I mean my point is that any arbitrary human would have difficulty handling a random, untrained for technical task at the level of designing a vehicle in a drafting program like AutoCAD.

Maybe what you want to say is, "I would like you to spend 4 to 10 years learning how to build a 5 wheeled vehicle." Then maybe the AI comes back to you and says, "Is MIT an acceptable institution to learn these skills at?"

Re:Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turi... by 3pt14159 on Saturday April 14, 2012 @11:38AM (#3841139)
Fine, but even a child can start drawing a five wheeled car. It isn't AI if it couldn't at least handle the question.