Comment by laszlokorte

8 years ago

Only that the chat response is not just function of the 500 character query but also of all previous queries:

You could ask the bot things like "Did I ever tell you about [...]?" or "What was the last time we talked about X?"

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crimsonalucard  8 years ago

Yeah I left that out to simplify the explanation. In this case, the mapping would just be more complex. Lets say we limit the memory of the machine to just 10 million of the previous queries.

Then the hash map could have keys equivalent to the concatenation of 10 million previous queries + current query. This increases the domain to 500^26 * 10 million possible keys. The underlying machine is still a hash map and you can build something equivalent or greater than human intelligence using this technique alone.

If you feel 10 million queries aren't enough we can increase the space to 10 billion queries thereby covering every possible range of textual inputs that can be achieved in a human lifetime. I think this is more than adequate for the mapping to cover a chatbot that is equivalent to human intelligence.

Again the goal of AI would not be to build such a machine but to compress the data. Essentially converting hard data into logic or in other words trading space at the cost of greater processing time. The theoretical exercise is just to show that intelligence and spirituality at a fundamental level is just a giant data mapping of inputs to outputs.

Thereby even under this scenario, a singularity is still possible.