Artificial Mediocrity, The Next Necessary Thing
This is a reply to a fantastic post named Artificial Stupidity: The Next Big Thing. by Nova Spivack.
In this post the author presents the following ideas:
- He doubts that computers will be able to make intelligent decissions (comparing to humans).
- We should concentrate mainly on low level thinking software (organizing, tagging, linking, remembering, etc.).
- We should let humans making complex thinking, decission making, learning, teaching, problem solving, etc. etc.
The big point in this post lies in reducing our aims. Humans are working on AI since 1950s, and the Nexus 6 has not been built yet. And we are not going to build it soon.
I think most of people working with Semantic Web has this idea in mind. We don’t expect the web to sing Daisy Bell as HAL did, but perhaps humans are not so intelligent as Nova states, and computers could be smarter than he says.
I will follow the knowledge stairs. (more…)
