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Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test On Turing's Centenary
It seems like we are slowly but surely making progress towards the creation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI). But I think the HAL 9000, as envisioned by Arthur C. Clarke in his screen play for Kubrik's "A Space Odyssey" is probably still as far away from realization as ever. And that's a good thing. We don't want HAL around, trust me.
"Wait"! .. you shout. "What about the article above? What about all the other progress? The Petabyte InMemory engine that will simulate an entire universe? What about the Siri app on my iPhone which is so cool?" ... etc.
My point is that we might be severely misguided in our approach to creating an artificial intelligence by trying to model it on the human mind and then shoving that model into an evolved toaster aka. machine. To use the human mind as model, the human mind would have to be a good and useful thing to model in the first place! Something worth reverse engineering, copying and mass producing. But that's exactly what the human mind is not.
Human minds are fuzzy. Human minds are influenced by emotions (a.k.a. the chemical cocktail sloshing about in our water filled skin bags we refer to as our bodies). Human minds make lots of mistakes; as a matter of fact, we are practically stumbling through life relying on a set of half-baked assumptions, available data heuristics, wild guesses, and intuitive judgement calls we usually explain as "rational" only after the fact. Do we really want a machine with potentially million-fold speed, physical power to acquire Jeffrey Dahmer levels of thinking and acting? I hope you get my point.
Allow me to elaborate.
I think its about time we change the definition of the TLA (Two-letter acronym) A.I. from "Artificial Intelligence" to "Augmented Intelligence". If you redefine it that way, we have already achieved leaps and bounds in AI.
So, you might wonder, what's next?
Is AI, Phase III the HAL 9000 that thinks independently and eventually decides to destroy its redundant maker? I hope not. And I hope we stop trying to get there before it's actually too late.
I think we are already in the middle of Phase III of Augmented Intelligence (AI-3), which is the phase where our minds are continually augmented and supported not only by technology in terms of systems and software, but by other humans as well. I think of AI-3 as the emergence of the global hive mind, a cloud of connected communities of like-minded individuals, retaining their individuality but benefiting from the real-time access to other opinions, expertise, creativity, networks and resources, even to financing available near real time, on-demand, in the cloud.
This is not science fiction. This is real. If you take the combination of social platforms like FaceBook and Twitter, combined with near ubiquitous and instant access to information via your smart phone, and combined with near-real time analysis of massive amounts of information (Big Data), the advent of augmented reality interfaces with tagging of objects, simple cloud applications that are easy to learn and use .... most if not all the infrastructure is already there.
I think this is what most people are missing when thinking about AI. While some folks are still chasing the mirage of building HAL, Augmented Intelligence Phase III is already here. If you are reading this, you are part of it. Part of the emerging global hive mind, which to me, is the true significance of what we are building.
CHHO, Walldorf, Oct 11, 2012
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