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No, thanks for the information. I've heard of these, but have not investigated them fully. I mainly see the term AI as being two different things.
What we call AI today we once called Expert Systems. I have yet to see signs we have solved true intelligence. We have made amazing strides towards creating programs that can solve problems, and that are specially designed experts.
Is this truly intelligence? I guess that depends upon what one believes intelligence is.
I never have been one that thought following a set of instructions was a measure of intelligence. Yet at a low level we are likely following rules of our own, so perhaps that is sufficient.
I guess I should realize that Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Sentience could be two very different things. Artificial Wisdom could also be different from AI. :)
It's very true, the term AI is so broadly used but generally in reference to things that can't really measure intelligence. It will be hard to say exactly when we cross that threshold because even if we have an AI that is seemingly intelligent it could just be an emulation of intelligence rather than something entirely new. But like you say this is a sort of symmantics problem of what we define as intelligence.. perhaps even a calculator has a kind of intelligence :)
I suppose the exciting part of SingularityNET is that all of the pieces can be connected into a single network. A human that is able to see things and identify them but do nothing else we would call them a vegetable, and that is kind of the state of our current AI in most cases. Really most of our human power comes from the large array of skills and talents we have working together under the construct of some overarching intelligence that directs them, and perhaps humans can play that role for the AI while it becomes amazing at everything else, I'm not really sure. Something like AlphaZero can be used to augment the AI for capacity to learn new skills, but the AI making goals and decisions the way we do seems like it will be the final step, only happening once everything else is in place, then suddenly all the components we have been creating are just random skills the AI can utilize while the true intelligence comes from something else :)