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When we talk about artificial intelligence (AI), what do we actually mean ?
AI experts and philosophers are beavering away on the issue. But having a usable definition of AI – and soon – is vital for regulation and governance because laws and policies simply will not operate without one.
This definition problem crops up in all regulatory contexts, from ensuring truthful use of the term “AI” in product advertising right through to establishing how next-generation Automated Weapons Systems (AWSs) [PDF] are treated under the laws of war.
True, we may eventually need more than one definition (just as “goodwill” means different things in different contexts). But we have to start somewhere so, in the absence of a regulatory definition at the moment, let’s get the ball rolling.
http://theconversation.com/why-we-need-a-legal-definition-of-artificial-intelligence-46796
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by zugedneb on Friday September 04 2015, @03:22AM
I know, that in semiconductor fabs, they have tools that can drill down to individual transistors.
If you read my post above, I make some claims that a digitalised neural network in a clocked computer can not be alive.
It would be cool to see an experiment, where a frozen salamander, or other amphibian know to survive deep freezing, would have its brain picked apart by precision tools like in those semfabs, and be scanned into a computer.
It would be interesting if the chemical and electrical properties at each "drill point" could be measured.
Then we would have the brain of an amphibian in a computer.
A lot more informative and useful experiment then digging in the heads of apes and cats...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 04 2015, @04:35AM
Citation provided.
(I'd link the cat to some other physicist as well, but I'm missing a reference)
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Common Joe on Friday September 04 2015, @04:51AM
We haven't done that with a salamander, but we have with a nematode worm [i-programmer.info].
Basic summary of the article: they built a network to fire similar to the 302 neurons found in a nematode and put it into a LEGO robot. They found the robot behaves very similar to the living organism. There's a video in there worth watching. It clarifies what the article says and explains a bit more.