RE: Quality Over Quantity : How to Show Your Human Side
A friend of mine recommended the book The Singularity is Near by ray kurzweil and it has been a very enjoyable popular science read.
I must admit, I do far too little reading of actual books these days, but that is one book that I keep going back to.
I think I might be being too pedantic, but you say that strong AI makes decisions on the level humans do. Where as weak ai does not.
This seems overly generalised because it isn't even clear what kind of decisions you're talking about.
Some decisions made by AI can be even better informed than a Human. For instance, the computer which beat the GO grand master would have made consistently better decisions all along the way than the human counter-part.
But when it involves making decisions on complex and abstract concepts which cannot be easily modelled by current formal logics, yes, I think humans still are clearly ahead.
At the very core however, humans also behave based on algorithms too. Eventually we'll be able to solve these algorithms and simulate human consciousness completely. I suspect that' will probably coincide with when people figure out how to build and program Quantum Computers effectively.
Strong AI definitely has the capability of being on the level of humans and surpassing them as well. The thing people doubt is whether we will ever be able to create a truly strong AI, @federicopiston also referred to this in his chapter regarding robots replacing humans in the work place, he referenced the Chinese Room Argument, which is often used to refute the notion that strong AI will one day become a reality. Personally, I think it's definitely possible, people used to come up with arguments against why humans could never be able to fly but we got around that with the airplane. Our imaginations are infinite, and I do truly believe that we have the capacity to build things that could take us out of this world (literally and figuratively).
Thanks for the insightful comment!
~ Np