Well, it wouldn’t be AI, it’d be simply I, as in “I think therefore I am.” but not stopping at this period.
edit: I mean, look at the SIAI; what do exactly they do right now which they couldn’t do in ancient Greece? If we could reflect on our mind better, and if our mind is physical in nature, then the idea of thinking machine would’ve been readily apparent, yet the microchips would still require very, very long time.
Would anyone downvoting me care to explain why they disagree? Look at Newton or Turing: what exactly did they do which couldn’t have been done in ancient Greece, and why is there no analogous counterexample for the SIAI?
Isn’t “why weren’t the Greeks working on Calculus” a far less silly question than “why weren’t the ancient Greeks working on AI”?
Well, it wouldn’t be AI, it’d be simply I, as in “I think therefore I am.” but not stopping at this period.
edit: I mean, look at the SIAI; what do exactly they do right now which they couldn’t do in ancient Greece? If we could reflect on our mind better, and if our mind is physical in nature, then the idea of thinking machine would’ve been readily apparent, yet the microchips would still require very, very long time.
By this logic we’d have discovered all there is to know about math (including computer science) by Roman times at the latest.
Would anyone downvoting me care to explain why they disagree? Look at Newton or Turing: what exactly did they do which couldn’t have been done in ancient Greece, and why is there no analogous counterexample for the SIAI?
Isn’t “why weren’t the Greeks working on Calculus” a far less silly question than “why weren’t the ancient Greeks working on AI”?