The Dichotomies that Define AGI. It seems like there are hundreds of ideas about how to create an Artificial Intelligence.
But if we examine the foundations of AI, and look at the tacit assumptions of historical AI projects, we discover something interesting. Before we even get into the AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) field there are two major decisions that have been made for us. First is the question about whether AGI is possible at all. Those who claim it is not, have made arguments that are basically variations of Dualist thinking, claiming that there is a soul, or something much like it, that computers just cannot have. Everyone in the AGI field is, by actively working on the problem, demonstrating that they believe the opposite. Mind vs. Machine - Magazine. In the race to build computers that can think like humans, the proving ground is the Turing Test—an annual battle between the world’s most advanced artificial-intelligence programs and ordinary people.
The objective? To find out whether a computer can act “more human” than a person. In his own quest to beat the machines, the author discovers that the march of technology isn’t just changing how we live, it’s raising new questions about what it means to be human. Bryan Christie Brighton, England, September 2009. Singularity Symposium, a conversation about Artificial Intelligence. Meet Suzette, the chat program that convinced an expert she was human.