Quote:Why would the sole purpose of AI be to imitate human intelligence?

Because we'll develop that program once and for all, I believe that is the ultimate goal which have been kept flying around AI reseachers (and psychologists) for several decades.

I'll quote myself here:

Quote:... and how comes our most advanced computers not as 'intelligent' as some basic creatures ...

We haven't chosen the right 'algorithm' ?.

Quote:one of the primary usefulnesses of AI is that algorithms can be really good at doing things that humans are really bad at.

Fair enough, I don't deny their effectiveness either. But do you really think that goal has little places in AI development ?. Questions have been answered, algorithms have been developed by human only. Wouldn't it even better/be the right time to let computers raise and solve them, or support us discover things which aren't accounted ?. People can not be duplicated, but computers can be.

Time, money and effort have been put into imitating parts of human intelligent, some have evolved fairly good indeed. Don't they really need these advanced/complex/imperfect algorithms, however ?, or just something really simple that we couldn't find out ?.

I'd like to note that man in general (not to mention disability or unsuitable environments) can be taught to do everything that others can. Why do we have to transform every single algorithms to computers, instead of building a real learning algorithms ?. We could't find it yet, I think.

Sorry to be (if any) off topic.

Quote:Original post by Sneftel

Quote:Original post by Skeleton_V@T
But do you really think that goal has little places in AI development ?

Nope. When did I say that?

Quote:There are more attainable and useful things to be done, many of which have practically nothing to do with such an "ultimate goal".

I probably have misinterpreted that line. We can discuss all day about this but none of this make sense until one of us propose a solution - a life time project really.