It seems to me that a necessary prerequisite for implementing AI, at least inasmuch as AI is modeled after human intelligence, is to identify the fundamental unit of information from the perspective of a human mind. Do you agree with this, and if so, do you know what this fundamental element of experience is?
If we could implement this informational structure, it seems true computer intelligence would then be only a matter of time (and not much, at that).
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It seems to me that a necessary prerequisite for implementing AI, at least inasmuch as AI is modeled after human intelligence, is to identify the fundamental unit of information from the perspective of a human mind. Do you agree with this, and if so, do you know what this fundamental element of experience is?
If we could implement this informational structure, it seems true computer intelligence would then be only a matter of time (and not much, at that).
Methinks many /.ers wish Jon Katz were Bob Cringely ... insight combined with enough technical know-how to make such insights.