Timeline for Humans have a complicated brain. Can we develop AI to the point where it can rival our intelligence?
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| Oct 30, 2015 at 14:50 | vote | accept | ITguy | ||
| Oct 30, 2015 at 10:02 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @MasonWheeler : It's a matter of perspective. We only think those things require heavy thinking because we never evolved to do them. If you take a moment to think about the number of mathematical operations that have to be done for something as simple as throwing and catching a ball (which we do without thinking) you'll see just how optimised for certain tasks our brains are, and we don't even realise it. | |
| Oct 30, 2015 at 9:59 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | @phyrfox: Possibly. Or it may prove that an AI complex enough to think as we do will never be intelligent enough to comprehend it's own cognition, because it's using so much of it's resources just to think. We're having immense trouble making highly specialised brainlike processes occur, there's no reason to believe that an AI would be any more capable than us at doing that. It's an asymptotic thing, the closer something comes to being as intelligent as us, the harder we (and it) will find it to make anything more intelligent. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 20:45 | comment | added | Mason Wheeler | So basically, computers are already better at us as "thinking about" just about all the stuff that requires heavy thinking, but they tend to get hopelessly lost on things that are so natural and fundamental to us that we don't even have to think about them. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 20:20 | comment | added | phyrfox | @DasBeasto Certainly not. While biological evolution has taken a long time, computational evolution has occurred over a matter of a few decades. Once we have the processing power to fully run a learning AI, it may well overtake our own intelligence in mere years. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | DasBeasto | By the logic of computers not having as long to get to the point of intelligence that we are at and with more time they will get there, wouldn't that imply by the time they get there we too will evolve intelligence past that point. tldr; if time is the defining issue then wont we always be millions of years ahead of them? | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | Dan Bryant | Also worth considering that, even with all the functionality hard-wired into the brain, it takes many years of development to go from newborn to someone capable of holding an intelligent conversation. The first AIs that can rival general human intelligence are likely to require a similarly lengthy developmental period, with exposure to the same kind of breadth of input. | |
| Oct 29, 2015 at 15:42 | history | answered | Joe Bloggs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |