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Can a Machine really be intelligent ?
Now that's a good question...
Now this is a real subject for discussion. According to Godel...[Admin Edit}
Sorry Bishop - I told you before, we are NOT going into Godel and his completeness theorem, nor what his face - Turing nor Heisenberg - This is a nice friendly Forum about Machine Intelligence, not a philosophical diatribe... OK.
Okedoky - So, to talk about 'Machine Intelligence' we need to define it so, - What is intelligence? And, for that matter, what is consciousness ? So, Can a machine be 'Conscious'?
You know very well that this is not what the Forum is about - this Forum is about the current knowledge of Machine Intelligence and principally about Neural Networks. If need be I can start another Topic about the philosophy of Machine Intelligence - How's That.
Don't worry I did it already!
So Can a Machine be conscious then ?
Assuming the Human mind to be aware and conscious - humans have between 80 - 100 billion neurones in the brain - plus all the billions of synaptic connections - currently the biggest neural network in a super-computer has around 16 million neural units - a bit like a tadpole - so is a tadpole conscious ? - is it possible to communicate sensibly with a newt ?
I think we may get more out of a newt than we get out of you. LOL
In which case, I stand by my previous comment.
I like newts.