Artificial Human Intelligence (march 15th 09)

This is an idea that Elias and I came up with at Andrew's house (we were up most of the night talking about some interesting material)

"Artificial Intelligence" should really be "Artificial Human intelligence "

At first glance, intelligence and human intelligence may look as tho they both go together, but if you think about it, they're quite different.

As it seems, intelligence is relevant to the subject you are talking about, cats, dogs, humans, whales, aliens, etc... if it is some sort of a life form, it will probably have a way of communicating with its own type, so, this means that there are many different types of intelligence, and people who are looking for 'intelligent life' in outer space are really referring to intelligent human life or something similar/legible. This, from my point of view, means that there is no way we will ever find our intelligence in this universe, unless the human race somehow managed to split apart from itself, unnoticed, and go into deep space, tho im sure that there is other life out there, which has its own agendas and ways of communicating (that we will ignore because we wont understand it) So, artificial human intelligence... something human like, but 'artificial', something we can duplicate instantly, something to avoid our 'errors' and go beyond our 'limits'.

Its topics like these that last, because its something that nobody knows. Nobody knows how to successfully create AI, so the discussion can continue forever until its been done at least. So if we have discussions on stuff like AI or anything else that's not really known at the moment, they will last longer than say, a discussion about gravity/etc.

We'll have to contribute more ideas to this, in the meantime maybe come up with a list of things that aren't really known:

AI
Teleportation
"Time Travel"
Telekinesis
Mind Control
Las Plagas
etc.

Eli wrote:

Telekinesis
Mind Control
Las Plagas

lol