“Btw, I think the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ is a lethal misnomer; intelligence is a behavioral property that can »only be expressed by living organisms and ecologies.

This fact is due in part to a triad of unique qualities of organisms: they form intimate relationships with the environment and other organisms, these relationships result in various forms and degrees of awareness, and organisms are staggeringly more complex than machines will ever become — particularly in their relationships to time. Organismal relationships »invent new domains of time. Machines may also do this, but in a ‘dead domain’ that, like the vaccum of space, lies (primarily) outside of organismal relation in that is it largely unaffected by it. Or rather, it interferes with and competes directly against organismal relationships, histories and environments.

This, by itself is nearly the explicit opposite of what should be understood as intelligent identity, nature, activity or outcome.

It is my view that it is formally impossible for machines to be intelligent, unless we decide to change the natural meaning of this extremely important word in order to allow the activity of machines to qualify — which would be a disaster for our own intelligence since it would redefine an organismal activity as a mechanical activity.

If humans use language in ways that are wrong, devastation naturally follows (especially: our own). What machines do has nothing to do with thinking or imagination; it’s pure mathematical computation.

A better phrase would be ‘computational heuristics’. Or ‘machine-assisted problem solving’.”

— infraheard