/sci/ - Science & Math

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Well look at it this way: a lot of people think that AI will make substantial progress when we reverse engineer the general intelligence principles of the brain, in other words we need to understand how brains work before we can get AI. But how many species are there out there with a brain? And how many are out there with a neocortex, which a lot of AI-ists like to point to as the REAL center of intelligence?

And yet out of all these species, only one behaves like a human. Why? We don't know. But then why would we expect understanding and reimplementing the brain to result in an artificial person, if what we strive for in our understanding is the most general principles of intelligence, and not the particular idiosyncracies of human intelligence.

But hey, maybe that's not the case. Maybe human intelligence is not a special case of the more general intelligence principles shared by all brained organisms, and we are just the far end of a linear scale measured by the total number of neurons in the brain (we do have more than any other species after all, so this isn't implausible). I don't know.