Intro to AI (Questions)

Abilities of Intelligence with examples

1. Problem Solving: New Caledonian Crows assemble tools for reaching and collecting food over a long distance.

2. Adaptability: When one monkey begins washing sand off potatoes, others began to learn and copy her technique.

3. Answering Questions: Humans draw from their knowledge of the world around them to explain their answers.

4. Devising Plans: Scrub Jays hide food in strategic spots and only relocate it when others have been watching.

5. Doing the Right Thing: Humans use their own moral judgement as well as their experience to decide what best helps them reach their goals.

The most significant ethical concern surrounding Artificial Super Intelligence

ASI can grow so fast that it outpaces human intelligence and performance. We could quickly lose the ability to comprehend its technology, how to manage it, and how to stop it.

The setup of the Turing Test

A Human interrogator converses with both another person and a machine through text. If the interrogator cannot tell the difference between the human’s and computer’s responses, then the computer passes the test.

Setup of the Chinese Room Experiment

A person is inside a room with boxes of Chinese Hanzi and instructions on how to decipher and produce these characters. Despite knowing how to do that, he is not Chinese and does not understand the meanings behind each output. The Room functions as a black box, where outsiders passing in Chinese questions do not truly know how it passes back a Chinese answer.