http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/10/02/human-intelligence-not-artificial-intelligence/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/10/02/human-intelligence-not-artificial-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-112407 Big Elk Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:04:22 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/10/02/human-intelligence-not-artificial-intelligence/#comment-112407 Too sleepy to write about this right now, but I've been doing some manual labor at a theatre - striking sets, re-arranging furniture, etc and loading in for a new show. Also helped a guy set up a booth last week for a craft fair. And it occurs to me that culturally, we tend to think of jobs like this - manual labor jobs - as "dumb" jobs, things you don't necessarily have to be skilled or need experience to do. And yet, the small moment-to-moment decision making required in situations like that - each of which is totally novel, with instances deviating from set patterns regularly - is actually quite complex. While we might be moving towards certain types of artificial intelligences, or behaviors which seem to mimic what we think of as "intelligence", it seems that the span of what's covered by such things is quite small. That is, even a really "smart" computer would be TERRIBLE at doing something which most people consider a "dumb" job. Too sleepy to write about this right now, but I’ve been doing some manual labor at a theatre - striking sets, re-arranging furniture, etc and loading in for a new show. Also helped a guy set up a booth last week for a craft fair. And it occurs to me that culturally, we tend to think of jobs like this - manual labor jobs - as “dumb” jobs, things you don’t necessarily have to be skilled or need experience to do. And yet, the small moment-to-moment decision making required in situations like that - each of which is totally novel, with instances deviating from set patterns regularly - is actually quite complex. While we might be moving towards certain types of artificial intelligences, or behaviors which seem to mimic what we think of as “intelligence”, it seems that the span of what’s covered by such things is quite small. That is, even a really “smart” computer would be TERRIBLE at doing something which most people consider a “dumb” job.

]]> http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/10/02/human-intelligence-not-artificial-intelligence/comment-page-1/#comment-112392 Dan Gould Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:03:10 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/10/02/human-intelligence-not-artificial-intelligence/#comment-112392 Tim, I agree 100%. have a feeling human abilities are far greater than we know. Think modeling geniuses (NLP), super-learning type skills, memory tricks - it goes on and on. This is a big focus of current research for me. Tim, I agree 100%. have a feeling human abilities are far greater than we know. Think modeling geniuses (NLP), super-learning type skills, memory tricks - it goes on and on. This is a big focus of current research for me.

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