Mindsets, Capabilities, and the State of AI

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When we think about intelligence we think about feelings, emotions, the heart, the brain, but it doesn’t need thoughts or a body to be intelligent. In summary, intelligence is independent of the substrate. What does that mean? Well, imagine you write your memoirs in a paper diary and then decide to transfer everything to a Word document, okay? And then print it on a sheet of paper. Have your memoirs changed? Have your thoughts changed? No, they’re still the same. What’s happened is that they’re in a different format. That’s what I mean when I say that intelligence, and in this case artificial intelligence, is independent of the substrate. It can be anywhere; that is, it does not depend on the material in which it is stored or processed. Subtitle: Examples of Artificial Intelligence A self-driving car is artificial intelligence. Google Translate is artificial intelligence. The artificial intelligence on my mobile phone, where I draw a badly made cat and it makes me a hyper-realistic cat, is artificial intelligence, and each one is on a device. Now, to achieve the objectives we impose on it, it needs two things: memory and computation. Memory is the ability to store and retrieve data...