I saw this link and I want to share it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/20/artificial.intelligence
It talks about making machines like humans and the author thought it to be an error.
While it is true that people are still wild animals (at least some are) and act as wild as our long ancesters did. I personally think that animals act acordingly to their surroundings better than us. The best thing that we have is innovation, invention, the ability to think and work in our minds with things yet unknown or undiscovered. We have the ability to invent and solve problems and obtain the necesary data from nowhere (actually from a mix of things lose in our brain) that click at that instant. Everything is posible for the human mind. But I think computers can never acomplish that, computers always need to find some data stored in their programs in order to do something.
With respect to our body I think is the most advanced device for the time it lived when it started to evolve. The good thing is that evolution takes time in order to make sure the changes are going to be good. Of course there may be may external factors that can change evolution. So it may take a while until we can develop wheels in our feet to move on the asphalt. Meanwhile we found a shortcut to it; by desperately inventing cars with its negative consequences.
About the article I agree in part with the author. But I think that nature knows better than us why we are how we are and we may never know why.
There are infinite number of ways to go from one point to another and sometimes the shortest distance may not be the best.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jun/20/artificial.intelligence
It talks about making machines like humans and the author thought it to be an error.
While it is true that people are still wild animals (at least some are) and act as wild as our long ancesters did. I personally think that animals act acordingly to their surroundings better than us. The best thing that we have is innovation, invention, the ability to think and work in our minds with things yet unknown or undiscovered. We have the ability to invent and solve problems and obtain the necesary data from nowhere (actually from a mix of things lose in our brain) that click at that instant. Everything is posible for the human mind. But I think computers can never acomplish that, computers always need to find some data stored in their programs in order to do something.
With respect to our body I think is the most advanced device for the time it lived when it started to evolve. The good thing is that evolution takes time in order to make sure the changes are going to be good. Of course there may be may external factors that can change evolution. So it may take a while until we can develop wheels in our feet to move on the asphalt. Meanwhile we found a shortcut to it; by desperately inventing cars with its negative consequences.
About the article I agree in part with the author. But I think that nature knows better than us why we are how we are and we may never know why.
There are infinite number of ways to go from one point to another and sometimes the shortest distance may not be the best.