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• Charlie Stross commented on Interview
  You're damn right that's too personal....
• Charlie Stross commented on Interview
  "True AI is thirty years away" -- and probably always will be, because whenever we learn how to do something in software that was formerly thought to be a function of conscious intelligence, we stop calling it AI and start calling it application programming....
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Interview
  Define "True AI" in objective terms that don't involve specific tests. ("Thinks like a human" is fairly subjective -- I know how I think, I have no idea how, or even if, someone else thinks.) Do that, and maybe I'll believe your prediction as to when we'll have it. (Not addressed to Charlie, of course.)...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Interview
  Because that's a test for "English-speaking Western-society-educated human-level comprehension." Which is not the same thing as intelligence. We have, right now, systems that can understand written English well enough to answer general questions. (One of the projects is called Cyc, I think it is.) It's just an expert system with a natural language processor. (Which does tie into what Charlie was saying -- my describing it as "just" that, when it would have absolutely amazed people 30 years ago.) I stand by my challenge: define "intelligence" in objective, testable terms. Before you even start to do so, however, ask yourself:...
• Sean Eric Fagan commented on Interview
  "thinks about as well as a somewhat-educated human" [...] It is objective and testable Educated by whom? In which language? What environment? What level of education? What are the base standards you are using? It is a test, not a definition, and it is exactly as useful as "can play chess at grand-master level."...