Author: John Coffey
Date: 18:33:34 03/28/00
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OK a little different take on this: Computer intelligence will never be exactly like human intelligence unless you actually do a simulation of the human brain (which would be a terrible waste of computer power.) So what you would have are called Expert Systems. These are intelligent programs for specific tasks. We already have Expert Systems doing all sorts of work. There are programs out there already with the knowledge of a thousand people making decisions. (For example the stock market.) Ten years ago I worked for a company that developed Expert Systems. Now one problem with Expert Systems is that they are GIGO. Garbage in and Garbage out. Means some human has to tell the computer how to think. There is some learning that takes place, but that usually involves some sort of programmer bias as well. Which brings me to the point of my original post: Computers can already do a great many things better than humans. We already have super-intelligence in specific areas. The sky has not fallen. I view computer intelligence as an extension of our own intelligence. We program the computers how to think and how to make decisions. They also provide us with information so that we can better make decisions. Computers are just better tools and I suspect that they always will be. John Coffey
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