Friday, August 7, 2009

Artificial Thinking Challenge


Artificial Thinking challenge is open. This site is a notebook, a program for the next ten years to come and a huge challenge addressed to each of us. From general topics to more specific ones, I intend to go deeper and deeper into crisp specifications, and real achievements.

I am quite sure that techniques are developed well enough for implementing an artificial thinking machine, say, since 2000. How to prove I am right? The best way: doing it. I am not (totally) naive and just want to demonstrate feasibility. I guess that 50% of issues encountered on this way come from our own inhibitions and from our false beliefs.

False beliefs about friendly artificial intelligence
If we succeed in implementing an artificial thinking machine, close enough to our way of thinking, then, this machine will get its own free will. From my point of view, this "free will" takes part of clues showing we have reached our goal: artificial thinking implementation. Even in a restricted universe, this free will may be in opposition with our own interests. I don't think there is a scientific method, a twisted algorithm granting that an artificial thinking would think "friendly" from our point of view. Roughly, intelligence directly implies liberty of thinking. How to secure our future from a threat of hostile artificial intelligence? The answer is very simple: there is never a reliable means in forecasting future! If you have got children, are-you sure they will care of their old parents later? Quite sure? That's right! Artificial intelligence will behave as we tell it to do. Of course, I have got fears about it, thinking of all our "tribal" wars, horrible daily news, bad examples of crualty. A "friendly" artificial intelligence would be my friend (suppose I am right). Suppose you are my enemy. What do you think this artificial intelligence will do? I have got close friends in China and Russia. Are-they friends with Americans?
The real issues are not on the side of this future super artificial intelligence. The real issues are already spread among our crazy world: competition, wars...

Promises
They are at least as big as threats. If artificial thinking speeds up science, we will all benefit from it.

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