AI is not a total answer

There Are Two Kinds of AI, and the Difference is Imperative!

Most of today’s AI is designed to solve specific problems.

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• Dan Baum

So why don’t we have general AI yet? 
“It’s not fully adaptive in a humanlike way, so it really doesn’t match human capabilities,”

There isn't a single, agreed-upon definition for general artificial intelligence. “Philosophers will argue whether General AI needs to have a real consciousness or whether a simulation of it suffices," Jonathan Matus, founder and CEO of Zendrive, which is based in San Francisco and analyzes driving data collected from smartphone sensors, said in an email. 

But, in essence, “General intelligence is what people do,” says Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Seattle, Washington. “We don’t have a computer that can function with the capabilities of a six year old, or even a three year old, and so we’re very far from general intelligence.” 

Such an AI would be able to accumulate knowledge and use it to solve different kinds of problems. “I think the most powerful concept of general intelligence is that it’s adaptive,” Hanson says. “If you learn, for example, how to tie your shoes, you could apply it to other sorts of knots in other applications. If you have an intelligence that knows how to have a conversation with you, it can also know what it means to go to the store and buy a carton of milk.” 

General AI would need to have background knowledge about the world as well as common sense, Laird says. “Pose it a new problem, it’s able to sort of work its way through it, and it also has a memory of what it’s been exposed to.” 

Scientists have designed AI that can answer an array of questions with projects like IBM’s Watson, which defeated two former Jeopardy! champions in 2011. 

“It had to have a lot of general capabilities in order to do that,” Laird says. 

Today, there are many different Watsons, each tweaked to perform services such as diagnosing medical problems, helping business-people run meetings, and making trailers for movies about super-smart AI. 

But still, “It’s not fully adaptive in the human-like way, so it really doesn’t match human capabilities,” Hanson says. 

 

" A human made computer will never actually replace the Hunan mind and/or thorough process in the over all pursuits of knowledge or performance on it's own! Because human thinking is a result of seeking and using the God given intelligence in the search and use of facts and data to show the whole truth! "   AMEN!  

Prove otherwise, if you can!