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Virtually Real
Friday, October 5th, 2007 by Admiral_Coeyman What is the difference between virtually intelligence and real intelligence? If there was no difference, then why would we call them by opposing names? There are people in the world who believe that we have to come to terms with intelligence as a mater of computation. I have never agreed with this viewpoint. Nobody who has read my stand up philosophy could overlook that fact.
There is a test, as I have written before, that allows us to test virtually intelligent systems. This is called the ‘Turing Test.’ Simply put, a machine becomes intelligent when we can no longer tell the difference between the machine and something that we accept as intelligent. I would hold that, if a machine could come to the point of true understanding, then it would ascend beyond artificial intelligence into true intelligence. A machine which falls in love is more than a machine.
Having seen photorealistic images, I understand that it is possible for a thing to appear to be what it is not. Just because a machine’s reactions to me are what I would expect of an intelligent companion would not mean that the machine is truly intelligent. This is my idea of virtual intelligence. I believe that it would be enough for a machine to behave as though it was intelligent. Each of us will be the judge of when a machine is both adequate and when it is intelligent in our eyes.
This does not answer the original question. How does artificial intelligence differ from the real thing? Maybe it is all virtual intelligence and we, following the god of the age, believe that it is something more than it really is. Then artificial intelligence is the appearance of intelligence without the substance of intelligence. Artificial intelligence would be a recording of intelligence.
We could also be thinking of artificial intelligence being intelligence housed within an artificial form. This would be the oddest definition although it is possible. To answer the question, I would define artificial intelligence as something that looks intelligent when it is not. That does not mean that I am right. Who am I to say?
