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What actually is Artificial Intelligence?

Lotus

AI is a common topic of conversation, but I've started wondering about what it actually is. I found an interesting article:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/artificial-intelligence/what-is-artificial-intelligence-ai/

The article states "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that enables machines and computers to perform tasks that typically require human intelligence."

 And that it "Simulates human intelligence through learning and reasoning"

Is simulating intelligence actually intelligence?

Also, can it ever "think outside the box"? For example, I recently moved into a new flat with a very small bathroom, and nowhere to hang towels. There is only a small space next to the sink and a towel rail will not fit. So I bought a coat stand - an upright pole on a stand with 6 hooks around it - on which towels can be hung, and it solved the problem. Could an AI have thought of this?

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  • Lotus said:
    Is simulating intelligence actually intelligence?

    That is a great question, and was the one of the subjects considered in Alan Turing's paper (Section 1, for example, called "The Imitation Game").

    However, we have been fooled before: we have considered "intelligent" programs that were not intelligent, as found after more careful study. So historically, the "simulation" was taken as equivalent to the reference when it was not. Eventually, they may become indistinguishable in the ways that matter.

    But...Are we there?

    An analysis relating the question above, and your questions is provided by the researcher Melanie Mitchell in this video, also in this blog post in QuantaMagazine, and in the podcast by Sean Carroll and Chandra Sripada (this last one is technical).

    My take is that we need more research (to answer whether they simulate, or have, a similar intelligence to ours). As of now, the question doesn't seem to have a defined answer.

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  • Lotus said:
    Is simulating intelligence actually intelligence?

    That is a great question, and was the one of the subjects considered in Alan Turing's paper (Section 1, for example, called "The Imitation Game").

    However, we have been fooled before: we have considered "intelligent" programs that were not intelligent, as found after more careful study. So historically, the "simulation" was taken as equivalent to the reference when it was not. Eventually, they may become indistinguishable in the ways that matter.

    But...Are we there?

    An analysis relating the question above, and your questions is provided by the researcher Melanie Mitchell in this video, also in this blog post in QuantaMagazine, and in the podcast by Sean Carroll and Chandra Sripada (this last one is technical).

    My take is that we need more research (to answer whether they simulate, or have, a similar intelligence to ours). As of now, the question doesn't seem to have a defined answer.

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