| > Why doesn't the universe doesn't follow something that might be described as an algorithm? It doesn't matter if it does or doesn't, we don't have perfect knowledge of the universe or quantum events, therefore the universe is still unpredictable regardless if it is deterministic or not. > Why are 'trends' are not cut and dry, and algorithms are? > Is there something special about a cell that is not blueprintable and manufacturable? It comes down to strategy. The dominant historical strategy for computer functioning is exact, precise and reproducible instruction following of a tuned, high performance state machine. It is almost opposite of our untuned but general biological nature. For almost any species, survival is based on adaptation where our computer machinery has no inner process guiding it's adaptation, only we as technologists attempting to adapt the computer's strategy to the world. You could argue that business use of technology is the survival characteristic. Biology on the other hand produces "suboptimal" systems that are very practical or relatively general, with many mechanism to absorb and compensate for errors or mistakes. We are just now teaching computers to adapt and compensate for specific situations with the hopes of generalizing the technique and it's a hard problem to solve. Not impossible, but we need to develop different methodologies for handling natural complexity. I agree there probably isn't something fundamentally different as both systems coexist in the physical world, there is just lifetimes of practical learning and effort that must be done to merge the two strategies into a cohesive way forward. (edit, spelling & gramar) |
There isn't a human alive who hasn't been taught most of what they know by other humans.
In the West we dedicate the first couple of decades of human life to this, with extensions for gifted individuals who are better at learning than the average.
Expecting an AI to understand the world on its own without formal teaching is equivalent to expecting an AI to recapitulate the entirety of human intellectual development within the span of a single research program.
It may be a realistic expectation at some point in the future, but it's certainly not realistic right now.