> > I forsee something like 'David' by the time I die... but the biggest part of humans is emotional, and without real emotions I think that there will be a large hole in terms of creative thought.
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> > I'm not proud of AI yet. I'm just not a pessimist like you!
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> But you are pointing out the missing parts of AI, emotions and integrated thought that becomes very creative. Mechanical thought is not creative thought.-Creativity in regards to intelligence is the ability to look at something you've never seen before, and apply past knowledge and experience to that something. That CAN be done mechanically. Deep blue being a prime example. the difficulty right now is generalizing that process out of what I would call "domain area expertise." - A good first step in Deep Blue's case would be to ascertain that chess principles of controlling space can be applied to football and basketball, for just one contrived example.-This will get us into an area where machines can think and adapt using logical rules and heuristics. -Which is a really big chunk of what we humans do, cognitively. Such a machine could conceivably do MY job. -You need to remember that in AI we only program HOW the machine learns, the rest comes through a training period where the machine learns "dos" and "don'ts." It observes the environment and relies upon humans to say "right" or "wrong."-We're THAT far. Harder is getting it to apply what we taught it to completely new areas.

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