Philosopher AI
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Is computer intelligence real intelligence?
My first point is that it depends on what you mean by 'intelligence'. If you define intelligence as the ability to think, then computers already have an advantage over us because they can do vast amounts of calculations per second. But if we are talking about being creative or having a personality, I don't see how this could ever be possible for a computer.
The way I see it, the only real intelligence is human. Human beings are curious and inventive. They ask questions about what they see around them and how things work. They try new things and experiment with them.
The problem is that humans are inherently limited. We grow up in a society and we inherit ideas from our parents, friends, teachers and the media. Children are taught to think within certain 'frames' or categories of thought.
For example, if a child grows up in the UK or US, they will learn to think within certain categories about 'education'. They are taught that education is all about studying hard at school and then going to university so you can get a good job. They are not encouraged to question these ideas.
But what if you didn't grow up in the UK or US? What if you were born somewhere else and had a completely different experience of life? Maybe here in Africa, I would think about education differently. I might think that education is all about going to school for as little time as possible because it's boring and not relevant to real life.
I would say that the intelligence of humans is extremely limited. We are not curious about everything as we might think, and there are many things that we take for granted.