It depends what you think intelligence is and what brains do. I think brains are physical structures that take inputs, store state, process information and transmit signals which produce intelligent outputs.
I think intelligence involves a system which among other things creates models of reality and behaviour, and uses those models to predict outcomes, produce hypotheses and generate behaviour.
When you talk about computation of a model of intelligence, that implies that it’s not real intelligence because it’s a model. But I think intelligence is all about models. That’s how we conceptualise and think about the world and solve problems. We generate and cogitate about models. A belief is a model. A theory is a model. A strategy is a model.
I’ve seen the argument that computers can’t produce intelligence, any more than weather prediction computer systems can produce wetness. A weather model isn’t weather, true, but my thought that it might rain tomorrow isn’t wet either.
If intelligence is actually just information processing, then a computer intelligence really is doing exactly what our brains are doing. It’s misdirection to characterise it as modelling it.
I think intelligence involves a system which among other things creates models of reality and behaviour, and uses those models to predict outcomes, produce hypotheses and generate behaviour.
When you talk about computation of a model of intelligence, that implies that it’s not real intelligence because it’s a model. But I think intelligence is all about models. That’s how we conceptualise and think about the world and solve problems. We generate and cogitate about models. A belief is a model. A theory is a model. A strategy is a model.
I’ve seen the argument that computers can’t produce intelligence, any more than weather prediction computer systems can produce wetness. A weather model isn’t weather, true, but my thought that it might rain tomorrow isn’t wet either.
If intelligence is actually just information processing, then a computer intelligence really is doing exactly what our brains are doing. It’s misdirection to characterise it as modelling it.