I agree with john Searle that computers are
not really intelligent and that they are just “simulate”
intelligence. First of all, we human programmed the computer’s mind based
on what we know from our knowledge or life such as education, health and etc. Human
mind is an amazing tool of understanding which don’t require power like
computer needs. Computer needs power to be intelligent. Human mind is best than
computer in gaining its knowledge as for computer, we put our knowledge in the
computer and that’s how computers gain its knowledge from. The computer uses
our knowledge to do their tasks such as search, use mathematic calculator and etc.
basically we are responsible for the computer performs and the intelligence
they use.
I
agree that human are being programmed by society and education to perform certain
tasks. From early age of human being such as age of 1or 4 we are thought how to
act, what language to speak and how to speak and do basic stuff such as combs
our hair brush, our teeth and how to cloth our self. So that’s how we get our
intelligence from. Let say if we didn’t get programmed by our society or our
education we would be less intelligent such as a cave man!
Finally,
as for my opinion, I believe we should limit knowledge that computers are getting or ever create an “emotion
feeling” for them because I believe if the computer knows our secrets or our
weaknesses it might take advantage against us for example, the movies, I, Robot
and Terminator.
Tuhin:
ReplyDeleteAs you can see I agree with many of your thaughts as well. Computers gain all of their knowledge from us, yes at times they can process quicker then a human or extrapulate on to the information we have given them forming a higher level of knowledge. But knowledge based with no real understanding. I vary slightly with you on our social behaviors and development and see these as more human development and integration into acceptable social norms - but we still have freedom of choice but need to balance acceptable social norms into our everyday lives. And I dont ever think computers or AI will ever develop feelings as we do - not without any heart or brain !!
I think Searle's view is interesting in this respect, as he focuses on the important issue of intentionality. It's the idea of not simply manipulating symbols, but understanding what we process.
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