An Artificial Version of Human Intelligence?


According to Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, intelligence is defined as:

















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  1. Lara/Trace

    Very dangerous indeed, in my humble opinion. The machine will smarten up the next machine. But are we also machines, aka slaves?

    • jjhiii24


      Thanks for the opportunity to respond to your concerns regarding the dangers of artificial intelligence. While any new technological advance naturally contains some element of risk when we consider how it might be misused, what is of most concern in the case of A.I. is that we don’t even really understand HUMAN intelligence very well, and we have seen how intelligent humans have conducted themselves throughout history, casting some doubt on our ability to control and manage an artificial variety. The most intelligent approach from my perspective is to put at least as much effort and research into creating a platform that does not pose an even greater danger than our own intelligence has done. I believe it is possible to manage these concerns, and understanding our own limitations and shortcomings FIRST just seems like an important first step.

      As to your comment regarding our own very human nature, we are clearly limited physically to whatever capacities we can develop within the temporal parameters of the human body, at least as far as physical activities and lifespan allow, but if you consider where we began our journey as human beings, those early humans were even more limited and far less able to direct their lives and manipulate their environments than we are today, and perhaps the progress we’ve made since the appearance of those first modern humans is informative about what sort of progress might be possible going forward. We are biological entities, with component systems that must function together and we are dependent on our bodies for sustaining our lives, but this does not, in my opinion, constitute slavery nor does it reduce us to the level of machines.

      What I hope you will discover by reading some of the other entries here, is that while we rely on our physical systems to operate in the temporal world, and access our richly textured inner life by utilizing and interacting with our astonishing capacities as cognitive creatures, that we are part of a much larger and more expansive existence that cannot be reduced to simply and only our biological functionality. There are many parallels in the physical universe to our individual human universe of thought and feeling and spirit. Most of the physical universe is composed of “dark matter,” which is invisible and ubiquitous, and acted upon by “dark energy,” which is only possible to explain as a force which MUST exist, even though we cannot detect it or explain it. We see only a very small range of the electromagnetic spectrum in visible light, but we know for certain that the range is infinitely wider and broader than our ability to detect it. We have an astonishing grasp of the quantum world, in spite of the fact that no one has ever seen an atom or witnessed the orbit of an electron, and almost every significant quantum event is beyond our capacity to confirm other than by inference.

      We are only limited physically by our body’s range of capacities, and our innovative and cognitive talents which have propelled us out into the universe as explorers, and put a man on the moon, and created a working space station orbiting the earth, among other technological achievements. We have consistently overcome disease and challenges to our survival, and continue to innovate and create beauty and music and love along with all the ills and awful thoughtless acts of violence that have plagued humanity throughout our history. We have eliminated many of the ills from the past, and continue to pursue the elimination of those still with us, and this is only possible because we are far more than simple machines or slaves.

      I appreciate your comment very much and hope you will explore a bit more here to take in a broader perspective.

      Kind regards…..John H.

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    • jjhiii24

      I’m glad you had such a positive response to my posting, and I appreciate your interest in sharing what I wrote with your readers.

      The subject of intelligence generally is fascinating to many others, and artificial intelligence is a very controversial issue these days, and we should be concerned about how we go about producing artificial devices BEFORE we find ourselves trying to figure out a way to disable them!

      Thanks for the link and I hope you will find other postings here to engage you in a similar way.

      Kind regards….John H.

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