Is Human intelligence artificial, or natural one?
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I would say that in your case, it's not even faked very well.
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Well I think it's natural. UnExplicable. I suppose we have some functionality that we still have to discover.
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There is no such thing. Artificial intelligence hasn't progressed enough to reliably mimic natural language understanding, much less understand and solve word problems. Looks like you're stuck doing your own homework.
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Artificial systems are good!  Or rather, neutral.  What makes them good or bad is their content.  Fight for freedom, but do it through the channels of these systems, unless they don't exist.  Without them, there is chaos, right?  Live your life as free as you can, but understand why the stuff is there.
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No I don't think so. Our brains work by electro-chemical interactions.\n\nWe'd be much smarter I think if our brains worked like a quantum computer. Or, we could not make any decisions at all as all of our decisions will be in a quantum flux, and dictated only by the laws of probability. So we'd be making random decisions!!
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Intelligence is native to the individual.  Generally we consider intelligence as something that remains constant and knowledge as that which we increase.
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Computers only do what humans ask them to do....or program them to do.any errors are glitches not seen at the time of programming....so yes they are human errors.
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Technology will afford some desirable features, like a better pair of legs, a better heart, brain augmentation (more memory, and even memory pre-formatted with knowledge), super eyes, and direct brain-to-brain wireless communication.  But is this evolution, or self-modification?  Meanwhile, we will develop robots that are smarter than humans, and eventually they will build and improve themselves.  Will that be evolution?  And then we will cede ownership of the planet to our inventions.  These new, inorganic creatures will be like us, but free of biology.
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On the one hand, Humans ARE animals.\n\nOn the other, we are something "more" than animals because we are sentient and we are significantly more developed. Although all animals have SOME ability to communicate (even if only by stench), and many even know how to make tools, they are still incapable of the advanced feats of humanity.\n\nI suppose that it may by some slim chance be possible that animals are sentient, but I doubt it.
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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Humans invented computers. So humans are best
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(m)\n\nArtificial intelligence (also known as machine intelligence and often abbreviated as AI) is intelligence exhibited by any manufactured (i.e. ) system. The term is often applied to general purpose computers and also in the field of scientific investigation into the theory and practical application of AI. \n\nAccording to the American Heritage Dictionary, robotics is the science or study of the technology associated with the design, fabrication, theory, and application of robots. Czech writer Karel Capek introduced the word "Robot" in his play "R.U.R" (Rossuum's Universal Robots) in 1921. "Robot" in Czech comes from the word "robota", meaning "compulsory labor." \n\nFuzzy logic is an extension of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth. Whereas classical logic holds that everything can be expressed in binary terms (0 or 1, black or white, yes or no), fuzzy logic replaces boolean truth values with degrees of truth.
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Biological computers aren't a myth anymore... For those who don't believe this, read this article:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/358822.stm\nOf course I don't say it's a genius because it's not, but this computer is capable of learning, associtaing relations, show the results depending on its knowledge and so on... \nArtificial Intelligence is growing very fast so who knows what the future will bring. For now it's just in developing stage, or with national security status :P.\nhttp://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/02/the_rise_of_the.html
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There really is nothing magical about AI.   It is a form of search and or conditional calculation.\n\nIt is very possible to write AI applications in structured languages.  For instance, I wrote an expert system for a class in grad school (back in the '80s) in Turbo Pascal.  Got an A on it, too.  I'm sure that you can do the same things now in Perl or C# or Java.\n\nMost neural nets, games, & genetic algorithms are probably written in C/C++ and they most likely have portions in assembly for optimization.  These are certainly NOT considered "AI Languages".\n\nThe classical uses for Lisp and Prolog are for expert systems and other decision based systems.  That doesn't mean that they can't be used for other things.  A company I worked for back in the early '90s built and sold CASE tools written in Lisp.  Nobody would think of building a CASE tool in Lisp nowadays, even though a good portion of the DB design tool is in fact a rules based Expert System -- the "perfect" place to use lisp.\n\nI guess my point here is that you shouldn't get wrapped up in the languages themselves.  Each language offers strengths and weaknesses as it is nothing more than a tool to solve the problem.  A well engineered solution is far more important than the language it is written in.
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depends on what u consider intelligent? we as human consider ourselves to be the intelligent life forms on our planet but what are we basing that on? The fact that we can think logically, do math, astronomy. These are things that are only important to US, what does a dog need with math consider its species and what it is here for. Frankly this is not a general question that can be answered with one answer in which everyone will agree on. we all have what we think to be "intelligent" and what is not. Think about the very first mathematician and scientist, how do u think they viewed others and what do u think others thought about them trying things that were innovative and "new" but not necessarily "smart" at the time?
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Computers are lacking in their capability to learn. They tend to surpass humans in pure rationality issues, and eventually they'll be better at certain things humans are good at intuitively just by taking in enough information. However, the algorithms for a computer's intelligence requires everything to be objective. So there's no way for it to interpret something unless there's an algorithm there to determine how to interpret it. In short, the brain is self-programming. A computer does not really have that capability. To do such would require human beings knowing how to program computers that can program brains. And at that point, we might as well just program our own damned brains to be like that.\n\nBut in terms of raw processing speed, sure, computers will eventually surpass mankind. After all, if nothing else, they're likely using superior technology. All we have is a bunch of neurons and whatnot.
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Great question. \n\nYour analogy to man-made devices is somewhat of a backwards take on things, as most machinery is actually made to mimic living things.  Nevertheless, machines or beings, both are designed to take some form of energy from the surrounding environment, and convert it into work.\n\nIn that regard, the brain is very much like a computer that controls the body, but it has one amazing difference that artificial intelligence can't approach (yet.)  The ability to recognize, store and relate patterns to one another.  This is how people are able to do simple things that are beyond the most powerful computers. \n\nWhile our brains do function in a (sort of) binary way, with the firing of neurons occurring or not occurring, they also are able to instantly interconnect experiences (which are just patterns of neurons that fire in a prescribed way based on the chemical triggers) to form new patterns which didn't exist beforehand.  In other words, WE LEARN. What's more amazing is that we can relate things INSTANTLY.  Think about how you can recall a memory from an hour ago, yesterday, or your childhood all in the same span of time.  You can also experience something in the present, instantly connect it to something that happened thirty years ago, and then immediately act on the combination of both the old and new information almost without thinking.  It's miraculous.\n\nThe ability to think like this no doubt stemmed from our animalistic past, and the need to survive previously inexperienced phenomenon, but over time, we've adapted it to be able to create, envision, and imagine things that don't yet exist.  This is something that has plagued computer scientists working on A.I. since the beginning.\n\nGetting back to your original question, I guess we should ask ourselves, does the brain exist to control the body, or does the body exist to transport the brain around it's environment.  Since, over time, intelligence seems to increase in complexity, one would have to say that the body exists to transport the brain around.  This leads us to ask, did intelligence occur spontaneously, or was the body designed to be programmed?  \n\nWith computers, the limitation to the capabilities of the software is ALWAYS the hardware.  Even though programmers always find clever ways of doing things with limited hardware, there is always a limit.  So far, this doesn't seem to be the case with the human brain.  There seems to be no limit to how sophisticated our thought processes can become.  We may only be able to remember and recall a certain amount of information, but being able to INNOVATE, and create previously unimagined connections between things seems to be limitless.  In a sense, we are able to continually "re-write" our own operating systems, based on the new things we learn.  Thank goodness too, because what a drag to think there was a limit on how much we could learn or know.\n\nFor this reason, I'd have to say that if our brains are like computers, they haven't been "programmed" with software in any conventional sense.  They are just too fluid and adaptable to be compared to something as limited as a computer.