I'm not sure any "dimebodied intelligence" actually exists, let alone how such a thing would behave.
As far as the exclusion of certain AIs, well, I've always thought the term "Aritficial Intelligence" was being overextended by its common usages in the industry; for an AI to be "intelligent," it needs a fundamental adaptability built into it. It's not enough to ask and answer questions based on a decision tree; this is as limited as the wasp that continues to check its incubating hole every time a spider is moved. It must have within it an ability to change its behaviors--and develop new behaviors--dependent on its situation. It's the "change" and "new" qualificationa that clobber a lot of AIs, and "new" is among the characteristics that separate weak AIs from strong AIs. A weak AI need not be aware and responsive to its environment, so long as it is "adaptive" in working through its decision tree--some of its choices are situationally defined, not just situationally dependent. A strong AI, however, must be aware of itself and its surroundings, and respond to changes in those surroundings, even without full definition of its situation; it must be cognizant, self-aware, and able to overcome uncertainty.
To my way of thinking, many weak AIs are not AIs at all; some of what I have seen touted as "expert systems," for example, have no adaptibility within their algorithms whatsoever; the choices in their decisions trees do not ever change dependant on their situations. By which I do not mean the program always runs the same "if A obtains, then do B, elsewise do C" commands--that applies to all programs that have any modality whatsoever. What I do mean, though, is that A, B, and C never change; for AI's, the conditions and the resultant actions must be changeable--adaptable, in a very fundamental sense--in order to qualify as an aritificial intelligence as opposed to being a very sophisticated (and typically huge, for non-AIs) program. This does not require cognizance or awareness, but there must be a responsiveness and flexibility encoded into the basic operation of the program to be even a weak AI. |
