So, I am reading this book, which is interesting so far. But in making the claim that machines will surpass humans in terms of ‘intelligence’, I ask the following question:
Although computers may be able to store and compute more information than human capacity, is it really memory and knowledge?
In the last book I read, a big part of the text dealt with the difference between information and data. Information, to be useful, must bear meaning, otherwise it is simply data. If Kurzweil is making the claim that machines will surpass human intelligence, is he implying that machines will be able to create meaning out of their stored and computed data? Is there not something unique in the human experience that alters all meaning depending on the receptor? Or is intelligence simply the cumulated sum of information?
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You might find the Singularity Summit at Stanford interesting– some of the sessions are posted online as video podcasts, including Max More’s “Cognitive and Emotional Singularities: Will Superintelligence come with Superwisdom?” (to be honest, I haven’t had a chance to see this one yet, but I love the suggestive title)