Part of the brain’s strategy is to learn information, rather than having knowledge hard-coded from the start. (“Instinct” is the term we use to refer to such innate knowledge.) Learning will be an important aspect of AI, as well. In my experience in developing pattern-recognition systems in character recognition, speech recognition, and financial analysis, providing for the AI’s education is the most challenging and important part of the engineering. With the accumulated knowledge of human civilization increasingly accessible online, future AIs will have the opportunity to conduct their
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