>It seems to me that an artificial intelligent systems needs senses and
>limbs somewhat similar to those of a human being if we want it to
>display an "intelligence" also somewhat similar to that of a human
>being.
>So it seems that an artificial intelligent system or an artificial
>brain, needs human like inputs and outputs in order to have a chance to
>display a human intelligence. Even so it may not show intelligence
>because the brain is inadequate, but without these inputs and outputs
>even a good brain could not display this "intelligence".
>
>What do you think?
I thought this was a generally accepted point of view in contemporary AI?
The question however is whether we _want_ to construct artificially
intelligent systems that mimic the exact properties of human intelligence.
For example, if you look at the WWW and assume you would have agents that
roamed the network for information, their senses registering the activity
of millions of browsers, their activities changing network structure and
controlling the flow of activity, then this environment could just as well
be as rich as the environment in which humans and animals operate. These
agents could, in their non-human intelligence, be just as useful as
machines that look and behave exactly like us.
My personal view is that if we _really_ want artificial human intelligence,
we need to build systems that have an atleast as rich and probably the same
interaction with the world as we do. But, the construction and training of
these systems might prove to be so costly that we might as well end up
dropping the whole idea and opting for sexual reproduction. It's cheap,
pleasant and proven technology.:-)
If you want human intelligence, you'd better invest your money in ways to
improve human intelligence and bodily functions.