Robots

[T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)]

>>>Actually, I'm assuming that robots would have limits based on their
>>>programming.  I imagine that the first working, completely automated systems
>>>would, in some ways, be less efficient in computer controled hands than if
>>>humans were doing the same job.  For example: how do you think computers and
>>>robots would have handled the job of bringing home the  Apollo 13 crew?
>>
>>In my opinion such robots are intelligent or they aren't (no way between).
>>Say that you have figured out a machine with an IQ of 40. Then you could
>>probably link them up in such a way that 10 of them together would have an
>>IQ of 100.
>
>Have you ever tried putting a room full of morons together and expect them
>to do one inteligent persons work?  It doesn't work.  Mobs tend to be less
>equivelent then the sum of their parts. 

I was already thinking someone would say this.
What if we would learn every moron another set of tasks? Together they may
be able to solve more complicated tasks.

>Given that we have no idea on how
>to make an A.I. work its hard to tell what it could do, or what its
>limitations would be.  It could be far more inteligent than humamans, or be
>an idiot savant.  Great at one thing, and hopeless in general.

As I already said, no way between.


Timothy