The State of the State in General AI (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, June 07, 2012, 17:19 (4352 days ago) @ David Turell


> > Naughty naughty... you haven't kept up with my AI posts. All experts agree that the key to "true" AI is first in having a computer that fundamentally recreates the architecture of the brain. (If you want, I can go into detail again.)
> > 
> > That article is flawed however. We will never learn truth about consciousness, without trying to create it ourselves. Just as a true chef, can only learn cooking by mixing and tasting her ingredients...
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> No, no. I've followed you. What you are missing is the innate plasticity of brain cells, altering themselves and taking over diffferent functions. In a recent paper fibers to the optic centers were cut and shifted to the auditory center and 'seeing' still occurred. The blind develop extremely heigthened alternate senses, but you knew that.-True, but we need to be able to build a reliable memristor type machine first before we can do something fancy like a machine that rewires itself over time. -Baby steps.

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