Re: Deep Blue
Richard Dimery (rjd20@hermes.cam.ac.uk)
Thu, 15 May 1997 10:19:01 +0100 (BST)I spoke to the leading UK robotics researcher a few weeks ago. He is
adamant that most definitions of intelligence used about humans have been
met by robots; learning from a basic program a unique and unrepeatable
"personality"; complex skills from world-top-10 chess playing to playing
beautiful music; from walking like a human to passing on learned material
to others. Sure, no robot does them all, but humans are uniquely biased
towards abilities as well, with idiots savant being a difficult group to
categorise as "intelligent". If robots can be better at each ability that
humans can have (and it's only a matter of time) then what stops them
being intelligent? Nothing, I would guess. But _sentience_ is something
else. Robots don't have a soul, but of course, that's not easy to prove.
How can you prove I have a soul....