I am not equivocating. By “successful” I don’t mean (or exclude) good-at-things, I mean it is actually artificial, general and intelligent.
“Strong AI is hypothetical artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.[1] It is a primary goal of artificial intelligence research and an important topic for science fiction writers and futurists. Strong AI is also referred to as “artificial general intelligence”[2] or as the ability to perform “general intelligent action.”[3] ”.
To be good-at-things an agent has to be at least instrumentally rational, but that is in no way a ceiling.
Either “rational” means “effective”, or it means “like a human”. You can’t have both.
Either “rational” means “effective”, or it means “like a human”. You can’t have both.
Since there are effective humans, I can.
Right, in exactly the same way that because there are square quadrilaterals I can prove that if something is a quadrilateral its area is exactly L^2 where L is the length of any of its sides.
You can, if you want to claim that the only likely result of AGI research is a humanlike AI. At which point I would point at actual AIresearch which doesn’t work like that at all.
I am not equivocating. By “successful” I don’t mean (or exclude) good-at-things, I mean it is actually artificial, general and intelligent.
“Strong AI is hypothetical artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence — the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can.[1] It is a primary goal of artificial intelligence research and an important topic for science fiction writers and futurists. Strong AI is also referred to as “artificial general intelligence”[2] or as the ability to perform “general intelligent action.”[3] ”.
To be good-at-things an agent has to be at least instrumentally rational, but that is in no way a ceiling.
Since there are effective humans, I can.
Right, in exactly the same way that because there are square quadrilaterals I can prove that if something is a quadrilateral its area is exactly L^2 where L is the length of any of its sides.
I can’t define rational as “effective and human like”?
You can, if you want to claim that the only likely result of AGI research is a humanlike AI. At which point I would point at actual AI research which doesn’t work like that at all.
It’s failures are idiots,not evil genii