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On the origin of species (AI)
HauntingPoem:
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--- Quote from: HauntingPoem on 22 Jun 2014, 20:55 ---I for one am fascinated by the way Jeff integrates and writes the different A.I. characters.
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Please remember to spell Jeph's name correctly; it's only polite.
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Ahh! You are completely right. Can't believe I wrote that, been reading QC for years!
themacnut:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Jun 2014, 09:43 ---There don't seem to be any super-high-IQ AIs. Once they have enough human-equivalent processing power to interact with humans, any further improvements go into processing trillions of inputs and maybe other things for which there is no human equivalent.
Does that mean there's a fundamental dead end to human-style intelligence, or just that there's no reason to create genius AIs?
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Could just be that no super-smart AI has made itself known yet; possibly because either such an intellect hasn't arisen, or it may be hiding it's true capabilities to keep humans from freaking out and acting against it (or trying to anyway...).
Carl-E:
*sigh*
Didn't Station deal with Hanner's psychological issues successfully while running an entire space lab? I think we're at a level of human meta analysis that no other human could achieve for the first, and the natural speed and multitasking of a huge computer for the second.
I think they may well dumb it down a bit for their human companions - the way we interact with a dog or small child.
Of course, my dog's pretty damn smart. :roll:
FunkyTuba:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 23 Jun 2014, 09:43 ---There don't seem to be any super-high-IQ AIs.
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[citation needed] ;)
What have we seen that indicates IQ of any sort in AIs?
All AIs would (presumably) have access to any conceivable online source publicly available (or more) so I doubt access to information (that is, Crystallized Intelligence) is a particular differentiating factor in AI IQs.
That leaves us with (if we're going for simplicity here... just a starting place) Fluid Intelligence or the ability to use logic and reasoning to solve problems in novel situations. As has been pointed out, Station seems to be able to keep a lot of plates spinning. It takes a certain kind of intelligence to (almost) pull off the kind heist May did. Pintsize seems to have maneuvered himself into a pretty comfy gig and finds ways to get access to as much information as he wants to pursue his, other, interests.
Just kinda spitballing here... if it were my universe I'd expect that comparing AI intelligence would need new parameters to do the measuring with.
I also think that AIs in general might hide or not use some significant part of their capabilities in order to pass as more like the people (read humans) they want to interact with. We've seen (or I might be projecting that) people get taken aback by Momo's rapid information retrieval and whatnot... it might be more comfortable for AIs to "dumb themselves down a bit" just to stay in sync with humans, much like Station when he "got drunk". Edit: just noticed that Carl-E made this point already
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 23 Jun 2014, 14:03 ---Didn't Station deal with Hanner's psychological issues successfully while running an entire space lab?
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Come to think of it, he succeeded where all the best human therapists her parents could afford had failed.
Running the station is more one of the "trillions of inputs" things, qualitatively different from human sentience.
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