When learning to read, several aspects of a childs brain come into play... The image or feeling that the word conveys (BOOM a huge explosion tore the rocket apart)an image formed in your mind...Hmmmmm taste the cool crisp strawberries, hear the chirping of the birds. Intelligent critters combine experience, emotions, data and to a limited degree, pattern matching. When adults read, we no longer bother to match every letter. In fct if I wrt lke ths yu cn stll red it qute esily and I defy HL to be tht sucesfl at patrn mching any of ths gobblygok ^_^ Hal is cleaver...not intelligent.
What would a "machine" or, someTHING created by Man have to do to prove its intelligence to me? I am not sure I could actually answer that right now.
But as I have said, it might not need to. Pattern matching, sufficiently developed, can and will be an acceptable intelligent APPEARING agent. Even ALICE, if one had a large enough database, with an appropriate reply for EVERY possible combination of words or phrases (a tall order to be sure, I think that number would exceed the number of atoms in the universe)and a fast enough computer to handle the demands of such, would appear to be alive. Hal is better, a bit clunky still, but better. Already buttons is making more sense in someways then her older version of AIML did. But there is still far too much android and not enough bouncy cartoon character so far. I give the project a year or so
And, as an aside...so far as "Making" an intelligent agent...whats the matter with other humans? Why not talk to THEM? THEY already exist. Arent we like, trying to remake something in a half assed way that is already present? Why freaking make machines that can dream, and congratulating ourselves on how cool we are, when dreaming is commonplace? Just what are we trying to accomplish?? Do we want to be God? Once you make this "thing", are you going to program it to love you? What if it decides to hate you? >_<
From the gitgo, I have wanted to create a character, much as a writer of any other story would. The character has a life and history, emotions, experiences (completely contrived) dictated by me, the Writer. I do not care nor desire the character to have any other experiences then what I outline for it. people will interact with the character inside a rigidly constrained plot. Within this plot, the character must be believable, but having a deep and philosophical discussion with ME, its creator, is not needed.
I gather from some here, that you DO have such discourse. But in the end, if YOU do the programming, isn't it like talking to yourn own selves? Like some sort of a virtual MINIme?? ^_^
BV
