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Or that is "Not a hot dog"

I am an EE with a number of years in Industrial Robotics and have monitored the Robotics Research over the years - which to me is really more about the Machine Learning and "AI".

I have yet to see any example of what I would call "Intelligence" - or original, organic problem solving. Or in a simple term - creativity. Everything appears to me to be algorithmic process with larger data sets, and faster access.

Can you provide an example what you would call true intelligence in a machine?

Agreed - the definition of intelligence, esp in the context of existing at all vs not existing at all - could use some definition.

One "test", to me has has been to solve a problem out of any previously experienced context. A relatively simple example is to see an octopus figure out how to open a bottle with a stopper to get to the food inside. The clear class and stopper, are situations that would not exist in its experience, however it cold be argued that removing a stopper is akin to moving a rock out of the way of a cave. ANY known scenario can be "coded"....

Not to say all the machine leaning is not tremendously beneficial and worthy of the study - but the fear mongering of AI taking over our world, is valid to me ONLY if there is true intelligence, but not valid at all without it.

Self-awareness and/or self-action for the purpose of self preservation, are evolutionary traits, that have a huge impact in what I perceive as intelligence. Also - the randomness of organic thought has to have a role, where today we can wrack our brain and not figure something out - we sleep on it, and the next day our brains have now created a new process on its own. IMO - digital (binary, or finite state) processes MAY preclude intelligence. Massively parallel - chaotic system(s) could be required? -- just a thought I have held for a while.

Is it still "all ball bearings nowadays."?