This is why I feel some people will never "let" AI happen. They want 100% certainty. Neural nets scare them. Despite the fact that real, human intelligence carries no certainty. You either have intelligence, and creativity, and uncertainty, and accidents. Or you have computers and rigid logic.
The interesting thing there is, when a space rocket malfunctions, when a car wrecks, or the stock market goes crazy... and it's a computer involved, it's always human error at the end of it. And, thus, intelligence that caused the problem. Computers mindless do exactly the thing they were given to do.
You either have intelligence, and creativity, and uncertainty, and accidents. Or you have computers and rigid logic.
Why does it have to be such a strict dichotomy? What are the specific tradeoffs being made between creativity and rigid logic? Is there really no way to pick something in the middle?
The interesting thing there is, when a space rocket malfunctions, when a car wrecks, or the stock market goes crazy... and it's a computer involved, it's always human error at the end of it. And, thus, intelligence that caused the problem.
Individual humans aren't always at the end of it. Sometimes you can trace the problem further, to the incentives applied to the human by some larger organization, society or system. Are human organizations also intelligent?
I think we're still very far away from a definition of "intelligence" that would let us answer all these questions. It's not clear that current AI research is bringing us any closer to that definition.
My point wasn't to start a philosophical debate on the term "intelligence". My point was, the intelligence that was recognize in humans (our only real guidepost at all, in terms of "AI") is closer to neural nets than the symbolic and expert systems of the AI winter. And that human intelligence is fuzzy and you have to accept the good and the bad.
This is why I feel some people will never "let" AI happen. They want 100% certainty. Neural nets scare them. Despite the fact that real, human intelligence carries no certainty. You either have intelligence, and creativity, and uncertainty, and accidents. Or you have computers and rigid logic.
The interesting thing there is, when a space rocket malfunctions, when a car wrecks, or the stock market goes crazy... and it's a computer involved, it's always human error at the end of it. And, thus, intelligence that caused the problem. Computers mindless do exactly the thing they were given to do.