• Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The issue is that the man in the room isn’t the mind, he’s an appendage. He doesn’t know what’s going on because his mind isn’t the “mind,” the program generating the instructions is the mind, and if it’s sufficiently powerful, it may possibly be considered intelligent. It’s like how your hand doesn’t understand English, it just follows the instructions sent to it by your brain that does. I’m not saying current “AI” is intelligent - it definitely isn’t, but I think that a sufficiently powerful computer program could be. We’re just a long way off from that.

    • TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      You still face the problem of running into something the program isn’t designed to handle, like some new 31st Century Trolley Problem or something.

      • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        That’s why I’m saying current “AI” isn’t intelligent. An intelligent program would have to go beyond following tasks assigned to it by a human (and thus only being the appendage to that human’s mind), and get to the point where it can identify and create new tasks for itself, becoming capable of actually learning, and gaining its own curiosity and motivation, giving birth to actual intelligence.