Jacob_Lyles comments on Should We Ban Physics? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jacob_Lyles 22 July 2008 07:52:24PM 0 points [-]

It's interesting to me that you refer to "AI" as a singular monolithic noun. Have you fleshed out your opinion of what AI is in a previous post?

An alternative view is that our intelligence is made of many component intelligences. For example, a professor of mine is working on machine vision. Many people would agree that a machine that can distinguish between the faces of the researchers that built it would be more "intelligent" than one that could not, but that ability itself does not define intelligence. We also have many other behaviors besides visual pattern recognition that are considered intelligent. What do you think?