Sunday, September 09, 2007
I Might Have Intelligence, So Make Me Artificial
Artificial intelligence, in the barest of senses, indicates some form of intelligence possessed by an artificial entity. Obviously, making something artificial "intelligent" has been, and remains, a great challenge. But why, if we are simply trying to bring "artificial" and "intelligence" together into a single entity, do we always try to make artificial things intelligent? Ethical considerations don't seem to sever other gray-area research, so why don't we try to make intelligent things artificial?
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What is intelligence? One could argue that there is little enough of it out there, or could argue that many things already have accomplished it based on how you define it.
It seems that most people define AI as being able to do everything that humans are able to do. But technically, much of what we do isn't intelligent so much as it is pattern recognition. And pattern recognition is something you can program a computer to do (with lots of difficulty, I'm sure).
More to the point, how would you suggest going about making something intelligent artificial? Is a product of cloning or in vitro fertilization considered artificial?
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