On Fri, 5 May 2017 10:09:20 -0000 (UTC)
Martin Gregorie  wrote:

> Two probably dodgy assumptions here:
>
> - that you want an always-on microphone connected to the Googleplex
>   in your living space. I don't.

 Agreed.

> - that a speech recognition system connected to a fixed range of
>   applications merits being called an Artificial Intelligence.

 The problem with that term is that it has *way* too many
interpretations.

> As far as I'm concerned anything that is claimed to be an Artificial
> Intelligence has to be able to pass the Turing test as a bare minimum
> requirement.

 So the one that is currently the world's best Go player doesn't
qualify ? How about the ones that generate pictures based on a short
description ? Or the ones that learn languages and are currently being used
to try and learn dolphin language ?

 Passing a Turing test calls for either something designed for
conversation or an artificial general intelligence. The latter is a current
hot research target in AI, most of the older single purpose AI targets have
been well and truly met now.

 There's an odd thing about AI - every time some goal for AI
development is reached there's a bunch of people explaining why the solution
wasn't really AI just something else (Machine Learning is a popular name at
the moment).

> None of these things, whether from Apple, Amazon or Google
> even come close to doing that.

 They don't even try, the main thing for them is reliable voice
recognition regardless of accent or language with a decent tolerance for
background noise. That's AI but the kind of single purpose AI that can be
done very well these days.

 I know a practical test for artificial self awareness - when an
AI asks "what's in it for me" and means it that AI has to be treated as self
aware.

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