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just a huge programmed database?

It seems to me that these types of advances in AI consist of bigger databases and more creative programming techniques for how the program should respond to questions. There is not any real learning going on, or any actual understanding where the program can match a word to a concept, and infer other things about it based on the match.

I still think the key to an AI "breakthrough" is a machine that learns the way a human learns. I think when we finally build an intelligent, conscious machine, we will have to teach it the way children are taught. Although, I hope it will learn much faster than a child.

Rob

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Thursday 11 July, 14:42
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re: just a huge programmed database?

> "I still think the key to an AI "breakthrough" is a machine that learns the way a human learns. I think when we finally build an intelligent, conscious machine, we will have to teach it the way children are taught. Although, I hope it will learn much faster than a child."

Not necessarily it would learn faster; maybe each learning step would last for many years of trial and error.

The real advantage is, once the electronic mind has learnt everything, you could easily clone it by replicating its physical support (i.e. its actual hardware, software and data), and that's something you can't do with a human brain.

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Tuesday 10 September, 11:58
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