Sublime

Core to this logic is a tenet of artificial intelligence known as Moravec’s Paradox. Hans Moravec was a professor of mine at Carnegie Mellon University, and his work on artificial intelligence and robotics led him to a fundamental truth about combining the two: contrary to popular assumptions, it is relatively easy for AI to mimic the high-level

The blind spot of AI is that consciousness does not emerge from thought; it is the source of it. As Leibnitz, imagining a computer blown up to the size of a building, observed in the seventeenth century, inside the machine (the determinist scheme), you find cogs and gears but no cognition.

cognitive scientist Don Norman. According to his conceptual model, the brain has three major parts, which focus on very different things and sometimes conflict. The “reactive” component, which handles the brain’s visceral, automatic functions, concentrates on stuff that elicits biologically determined responses, such as dizzying heights and sweet

Stephen Jay Gould,

whether it was important to understand the internal mental structure of the individual.

But labeling the objects in a scene is less than half the battle. The real challenge of situational awareness is to understand what all those objects collectively mean; to our knowledge there has been little or no research on this problem, which is clearly vastly harder. We don’t know of any current algorithm, for example, that could look at two

EVEN APPARENTLY SIMPLE ASPECTS OF COGNITION SOMETIMES REQUIRE MULTIPLE TOOLS.

Here is Turing’s strange inversion, put in language borrowed from Beverley: IN ORDER TO BE A PERFECT AND BEAUTIFUL COMPUTING MACHINE, IT IS NOT REQUISITE TO KNOW WHAT ARITHMETIC IS.