Re: Can Human Level A.I. be implemented?

From: Eray Ozkural exa (examachine_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: 27 Oct 2004 04:11:45 -0700

tcs_chen@yahoo.com (tcs_chen) wrote in message news:<f6446e9c.0410250132.2f7569c8@posting.google.com>...
> Roger Penrose gave fierce attack to strong A.I. research in his <<the
> emperor's new mind which sounds quite persuasive. I'm wondering
> whether human level A.I. can be reached.

If Strong AI turns out to be impossible, the reason will probably not
be Penrose's arguments. One may imagine several more plausible anti-AI
arguments, for instance the argument from irreducible complexity of
consciousness, e.g. an argument that would say that there is
essentially no way faster than evolution to build a conscious being
from scratch.

There are very few Strong AI projects currently, however. And none of
them seems truly capable of things like "consciousness". See a recent
thread on comp.ai in which I posed the question.

Regards, 

--
Eray Ozkural

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