and if I have to program one into existence , what would I need to program it to do !
which led me to look back at evolution of life , to seek some of the answers to questions like What is intelligence? how did natural intelligence evolve ? Why am I intelligent and the Dog on the street is less intelligent ? I kinda Zeroed in onto this thought that :
Intelligence in its raw form, is indeed the most efficient tool of survival .
The Intelligence that we talk of in terms of IQ or cognitive power is basically a very very specialized and applied form of this basic tool of Survival.
Lion has raw strength , cheetah has speed , Elephant has size , Ants have huge numbers of themselves , Humans ? yes Humans have Intelligence !
Now this Intelligence was such a brilliant tool that nature gave to humans that hardly 10% of it he used and managed to survive in Nature! This is like the prime achievement of all other spices
- To survive . But Humans got a tool so fertile that mere survival was not enough for it
to satisfy its sense of achievement ! The human intelligence went on (applying itself) to make life easier for humans as in if for survival of a specie , a specie needed to score 50 on the Survival test....intelligence (as a tool of survival) went on to score 60 , 70 ,80 , 90 , 99 ...... till Human dominated the world.
For example :
1. Even though not naturally autotrophic , intelligence told man how he could produce food for himself , by agriculture and breeding , and need not waste time or be uncertain
in searching for it !!Mind you, No other specie does this , except for Plants for whom its a nature's gift !
2. All the maths and sciences developed are essentially human intelligence applying itself
to make life easier and ascertaining survival of man !
So now I have a fair fundamental idea about what is intelligence ! So back to asking questions
to evolution about How I can try and program intelligence or what had God done ? when he programmed it.
Evolution tells me that life began from a single celled specie which had a singular property
IT DID NOT WANT TO DIE !
the secondary property was - Reproduce as many as yourself before you die and pass on the info you generated for ease of survival to the reproduced !
All its action were governed by single point agenda - It didn't want to die and if this condition was met then it followed the 2nd property of reproducing. So the point to note by the computer Engineers is who are trying to develop AI . You need to program urge to survive in a machine instead of the traditional way of trying to program by - infinite programming - i.e programming exhaustively for all possible stimuli the machine will get in its life time.
A point to note here is even for God to produce such highly intelligent species like the human , required millions of years of evolution, in its non evolved forms animals like mosquito have some sort of programming in them that they will avoid themselves getting hit by your hands and still seek out to drink your blood which we can even program now . So essentially if we want to Invent Artificial Intelligence - we are looking at machines with urge to survive otherwise Artificial Intelligence will lose its reason to exist ! Once this is done 99% is achieved - the rest 1 % is only about programming and giving that machine with urge to survive - better mechanism to exist !
1 comment:
I have been thinking about this question for a long time. Sometime back, I had come across a program on the discovery channel where they had showcased various developments in the field of AI. In that, there was one thing in particular that caught my attention. While other scientists were trying to pre-program robots to react with pseudo intelligence to situations, or in other words simply compare the situation to a pre-fed one and then give a pre-fed response, there was one scientist who created a basic robot and gave it a few tools and expansive memory. The he let it roam free and learn on its own. According to him, the robot will learn just like a normal human kid, from experience.
This is what I wanted to point out. Your premise that if we program something to survive, it will automatically become intelligent, is slightly flawed. It will definitely make the organism adaptive but not as intelligent as humans. I mean, even cockroaches have survived for millions of years, and they are intelligent too but they still can't use their experience in a way more manifest than just adaptions to various changes. That is the realm of humans. Only if we are able to create devices that can experience things and learn from that experience, can we really create human-like intelligence.
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