A new model for building AI (Humans)

by David Turell , Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 22:42 (5120 days ago) @ dhw


> Like David, I'm sceptical as to whether we can ever build a robot indistinguishable in all respects (including intellectual and emotional) from humans, but Cynthia Breazeal's questions enter into fields of philosophy. You call man an "ineffable river...never the same thing twice" (ineffable means indescribable or inexpressible, so I'm not sure how it applies to a river), -As an old river rafter her metaphor is perfect. The water in the river is never the same water moment by moment. Its color may be the same, its temperture the same, but the molecules are always different. The Grand canyon at its quietist is 10,000 cfm, and 120,000 cfm at flood stage. Never the same but looks the same, and is raftable at both levels.-Like you I am more than skeptical that a robot can ever be as changeable as a human. Our views of the world vary all through our lifetimes. A robot may represent a moment, a slice of a lifetime.