WOLFRAM NOTEBOOK

Part II: Intelligence and Implications

Introduction to Machine Intelligence

Outline for Today’s Lecture

Machine Intelligence: A Philosophical View

Information Search as a Pathway to Intelligence

Machine Intelligence

Humans are known to be intelligent. What makes us intelligent?

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  • Instant adaptability
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  • Complex languages
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  • Decision making; Ability to think
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  • Instantly recall past knowledge
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  • Creative expression across mediums
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  • Creativity - create things
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  • Morality
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  • Answers from previous semesters
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  • Take in information and synthesize answers; draw conclusions
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  • Know how to learn from errors
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  • Use language to communicate
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  • Empathy - understand others
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  • Answers from others beyond the ECE101 class
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  • Humans can think and make complex decisions.
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  • Humans can make and use tools.
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  • Humans can use language with grammar and syntax.
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  • Humans can self-reflect, seeing themselves (somewhat) objectively / from the outside.
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  • Humans can reason abstractly. For example, "This sentence is a lie."

    • Can machines also be intelligent?

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  • Yes 11
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  • No 5
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  • Undecided 1

    • As intelligent as humans?

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  • Yes 4
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  • No 13

    • More intelligent than humans? Why or why not?

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  • Yes 12
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  • No 5
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  • Answers from others:
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  • machines don’t have to worry about instinct, ethical, cultural considerations
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  • machines are more logical; faster at working through logical implications and considering many cases
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  • humans make mistakes; machines do not
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  • machines can't adapt their axioms, but humans can

    • Are the following “intelligent”? (Straight-forward cases)

    Calculator

    Your laptop

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  • Remember Church-Turing hypothesis: “Computers and humans can compute the same things”

    • Are the following “intelligent”? (Less straight-forward cases)

    Search engine--e.g. Google

    ​https://www.reliablesoft.net/top-10-search-engines-in-the-world/
    Comments from other students:
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  • acts like a “friend”
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  • uses my preference for reference

    • Roomba

    It moves around your house using active signal reflections make a map. You can ask it to see the map!

    Rocket

    The rocket:
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  • launches,
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  • flies up to ISS, which is travelling at 4.76 miles per second,
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  • matches speed to rendezvous,
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  • then flies back down and lands itself standing upright

    • IBM Deep Blue that beat World Chess Champion

    It is making decisions based on the other player’s game play? (adapts to other people’s play)

    Self driving car

    ChatGPT

    When Can We Say a Machine is Surely Intelligent?

    What would be an acceptable success metric?

    What would you ask to find out if it was a human or not?

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  • Created by Alan Turing
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  • The Imitation Game: A computer can be said to possess artificial intelligence if it can mimic human responses under specific conditions.
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  • Try something similar today: Bot or not

    • What is Intelligence Then?

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  • Subject of much investigation.
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  • Claim: Search is fundamental to intelligence

    • Best Tic Tac Toe move

    Monday: Anatomy of a Search Engine

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