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[Mike Holmes]

On 19/12/2013 17:06, Nathan Gilbert wrote:

> Also, the Turing Test isn't very good at determining actual
> intelligence in the sense most of us look for in AIs. There are very
> simple chat bots that can hold seemingly meaningful conversations for
> extended periods and thus pass the Turing Test. These bots are nothing
> more than a collection of pattern recognition algorithms and if/then
> clauses, basically on the par with the intelligence of a thermostat.
> Not the kind of intelligence we find meaningful.

You're begging the question there in assuming that a digital algorithmic 
system cannot be "intelligent". I think that's the error Searle makes in 
his "Chinese Room" analogy.

The kind of intelligence we find "meaningful" is perhaps better 
signified by the word "sentience"?

FoFP

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