whpearson comments on Preface to a Proposal for a New Mode of Inquiry - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 17 May 2010 01:04:18PM 0 points [-]

Well I'd agree we don't want exact human clones. But then the majority of people don't want the complex to use computers we have at the moment. Moving from serial to parallel won't make the computer any easier to use or reduce the learning burden on the user. The beauty of interacting with a human is that you don't need to know the fine details of how it works on the inside to get it to do what you want, even if it didn't have the ability to do the task previously. This aspect of the human brain would be very beneficial if we can get computers to have it (assuming it doesn't lead to negative singularity, extinction of the human race etc).

Comment author: ocr-fork 17 May 2010 01:39:02PM 0 points [-]

An AI that acts like people? I wouldn't buy that. It sounds creepy. Like Clippy with a soul.

Comment author: whpearson 17 May 2010 01:54:10PM 0 points [-]

I didn't say acts like people. I said had one aspect of humans (and dogs or other trainable animals for that matter).

We don't need to add all the other aspects to make it act like a human.