Artificial Intelligence

First of all what is intelligence? We have established that IQ tests have been biased on many different levels including those of culture, and socioeconomic classes. It is also believed that tests merely assess your ability and aptitude at taking tests themselves, no more nor less. Also, every culture values different traits and attributes in the members of its society, a vast number of differing things that are "signs" of intelligence. So, then, to be perfectly honest we can not agree what intelligence is or what the signs of it may be. So, if we can't decide on what it is then how are we to compare something to the unanswerable? It seems ridiculous.
Some points I find of interest follow; Cohon (Stanford University): "On the other hand, much of what we classify as intelligent is socially defined and can only occur within a social context; this is especially true of speech. Consequently, it may be that no real machine intelligence is possible in the absence of some sort of machine community or society of machines." I agree with Cohon and find this to be true, but he is saying that this does not exist, and it is that point with which I disagree. If the former is true, then machine intelligence is already in existence, because computer have a binary language (as basic as is) and their community we term the internet. It is where millions of machines communicate, and what I would equate to the human version of the collective unconscious, a meeting of the minds.
Lloyd (U.C. Berkeley): "I don't see artificially constructed machines as being able to perform all of the functions which we would naturally attribute to human intelligence. There is artistic intelligence, there is mathematical intelligence,
there is a kind of verbal ability, there is the ability to see the whole picture, the ability to see both sides of an issue. There are
just so many aspects of human intelligence which are vital. I don't see artificially constructed machines as being able to perform all of the functions which we would naturally attribute to human intelligence. I do think that machines will be able to surpass us on some of these tasks, but not on intelligence per say, not on intelligence overall." What a nice idea, sweet with sentimental overtones of our specialness. However, I would have to again disagree. YES, a machine at this point may not be able to master all aspects, but as they evolve over time, just as man did, its capacities will expand and with their large memories and accessing skills they may be able to eventually do so and multi-task to create an uber computer. Until then they would have to rely on their interconnectedness. Just as one man is not a master of math, and art and all things they would specialize working together in a network to accomplish a combined tasks as is done in human relations.
Roth (Claremont McKenna College): "my guess is that artificial intelligence will not be capable of surpassing or even equalling human intelligence, especially if we look at the subtlety and the kind of nuances, the imaginative potential that there is of human intelligence. I'm looking more on the side of creativity. On the side of our intelligence that is laced with feeling, with aesthetic qualities". Art and creativity are subjective. One person can see something in a work of art or a creative writing piece or performance that another would not. If we had a computer programed to take pictures or generate color paintings I am positive that one or more persons would see something of value and creatively unique in them. And if creativity is so unique, random, and special that it can not be reproduced, copied, or learned then I say that art students all over the world should be refunded their time, efforts, and funds. There are aspects of art that -seem- to be unique and inspired however the majority is a calculated regurgitation of sensory intakes, outputs that are simply process amalgamation and reconfigurations (concentrations on different, deeper or more superficial aspects). Which as someone who considers them self to be an artist, this is very hard to say.
Schwyzer (U.C. Santa Barbara): "It's such a frightening concept. Intelligence by itself is not very interesting. I think that some
human should go along with that intelligence. It makes no sense to just have intelligence and nothing more. It's like having weight without size. We can have machines, but intelligence is a human attribute." I know someone who believes exactly the contrary to be true; that the height of our evolution will be to just intelligence, with no body, just brain so a physical world in the manner that we are now familiar would be vastly different. I see this already in existence with computers. They are simply the processes of thought, Woodruff (U.C. Irvine): "We are massively parallel, and we have all these interconnections in the brain which people are now trying to understand, stuff called neural net computing. I especially don't think that human intelligence is something that is essentially different from machine intelligence. Our brains thinking or electronics thinking are essentially the same thing." Mind blowing isn't it?
If we take this to be true then machines are already further evolved in many senses. The last element would be to combine the two. Dare I say cyborg? They are already in existence with lenses for our eyes telling us the correct way in which to see the world, pacemakers, prosthetic limbs, time travel to the future (i.e. technological communicatory devices that connect through time and space as well as vehicles that accelerate us from point a to point b in a fraction of the time it takes to travel and communicate without them). A melding of the two, the creator and the creation, It may be the only way we don't eventually become completely extinct. They may be our vehicles to sci-fi time travel (past and future) as we could simulate any existence because we'd have collective knowledge, energy, possibility. The majority of our reality at this point is already made up of projections visual, mental or other wise are all comprised mostly of memory. Interesting stuff...