Comment by freedomben
8 years ago
> No computer will ever demonstrate actual intelligence, which is the ability to bring a new and unforeseen solution to an existing problem. I need only a cite a few examples to show this is true: Uber cars run over people. Facial recognition claims black people are criminals just for being black. Facebook's AI software lets in fake news.
Burden of proof is not on your claim, but rather on Kurzweil's, but since you made a claim and tried to back it up, I feel compelled to point out that it's a non-sequitur. Just because something hasn't been done before, doesn't mean it's not possible. Many people said going to the moon was impossible. Might be interesting to look at Russell's Teapot.
> doesn't mean it's not possible
In general, that which nature has demonstrated is can usually be replicated. A bird (flight), a floating log (ships), a fish (submarine), an asteroid (space travel), etc. Nature has demonstrated intelligence: a human.
However, just like nature has not demonstrated superluminal travel, it has not demonstrated super-intelligence; so that is still a question.
Nature never demonstrated Seaborgium, but we were still able to create it.
But it did make all the naturally occurring elements heavier than iron with a similar process.
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what do you understand by super-intelligence?
Intelligence that behaves like the AI singularity.
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Just FYI, going to the moon is also impossible. See "Van Allen Belts."