Would anyone like to contribute to this question about artificial intelligence?

[123person]

The question is simply, "Name an ability, experience, or quality of humans that artificial intelligence will have difficulty with."

An example: Emotion.

I am hoping the list will grow long. In fact, today I wrote to the help/info people at Wikipedia asking them the in's and out's of starting a Wiki for this. If anyone knows where the wiki should start -- Wikipedia proper vs. Wikibooks vs. wikiProjects, etc -- or, for that matter, if anyone could then start the Wiki, that would be great.

So we're talkin' the list growing extremely long -- perfect for Wikipedia.

Moving on, so far we have Emotion. Then there's Creativity, Imagination, Art, and Humor, each of which can be broken down (assuming we can get a Wiki started). Art can be broken down into Music, Dance, Literature, Visual Art, and so on. Emotion can be broken down into Anger, Fear, Joy, Sorrow, Humiliation, Pride, and so on.

Then there are experiences, specific and non-specific -- for example, what it's like to raise a child, grow old, feel physical pain, feel lazy, feel jealousy (there's overlap with the emotions list here), what it's like to experience a hallucination or illusion, to miss or mourn over a loved one, to experience/feel camaraderie, to lead a group of people interpersonally, to smell what humans can smell, to experience what petting a dog feels like as a sensation and as a psychological experience, to feel bias, to have or reject religious faith, to deceive a human, to endure physical hardship, exertion, or disease; to experience poverty; to fear death; the other qualia, and so on.

The purpose would be to inform designers and theorists in artificial intelligence, and students.

Each item in the list would eventually hopefully include citations of pre-existing scholarship and research, and future directions.

Some related subjects: philosophy of mind, the Chinese Room Argument by John Searle, intentionality, philosophy of neuroscience and of science, epistemology, cognitive science, computationalism, neurophilosophy, functionalism, connectionism, cognitive anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of language, cognitive philology, autopoiesis, semiotics, mind-body problem, the hard problem of consciousness, philosophy of psychology, theoretical psychology and neuroscience, affective computing, embodied cognition, strong artificial intelligence, intelligence explosion, the singularity, Wittgensteinism, positivism, philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of biology, cognitive ethology,

[For Prose]

Even though they would have a "purpose" in life (serving humans), determining their own purpose through self-reflection may be difficult. To simplify, understanding "What is the meaning of life?".

[cladking]

There's probably nothing about human cognition that can't be simulated by a computer if sufficient effort is put into trying. The last and most difficult aspect of human mental ability to be achieved would be intuition because this requires experience and learning to understand where logical steps can be avoided. However there's no such thing as "human intelligence" so it follows there is no such thing as "artificial intelligence". AI is a dead end that will be supplanted by machine intelligence. The most difficult thing for intelligent machines will be understanding humans and human perspectives.

[Delta1212]

Yeah, AI would only have trouble with emotion if no one bothered to program in a simulation of emotional response. Which makes sense, because why would you for most things that you'd use an AI for? But that's not the same thing as their being unable to do so if we wanted them to.

 

And if you want to see some creativity, look at what Google's image-processing AI has been doing recently with some tweaked setting. It's produced some real Dali-eat-your-heart-out work.

Edited July 11, 2015 by Delta1212

[dimreepr]

Yeah, AI would only have trouble with emotion if no one bothered to program in a simulation of emotional response. Which makes sense, because why would you for most things that you'd use an AI for? But that's not the same thing as their being unable to do so if we wanted them to.

 

And if you want to see some creativity, look at what Google's image-processing AI has been doing recently with some tweaked setting. It's produced some real Dali-eat-your-heart-out work.

 

 

But however sophisticated the simulation and however intelligent the machine it will never understand a human.

Because it will understand the conditions in which an emotional response is present but will never feel the emotion.

[StringJunky]

 

 

But however sophisticated the simulation and however intelligent the machine it will never understand a human.

Because it will understand the conditions in which an emotional response is present but will never feel the emotion.

If we think of emotions as existential drivers and program those same priorities into AI, then they will probably respond the same. Consciousness and emotion are emergent consequences of simpler components ...the composition of elements which we don't know yet.

Edited July 11, 2015 by StringJunky

[dimreepr]

Good point.

[Acme]

The question is simply, "Name an ability, experience, or quality of humans that artificial intelligence will have difficulty with."

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To be or not to be; that is the question. ~The Bard

 

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories comes afterwards. ~ Albert Camas Source