The Most Human Brian Christian Sparknotes

The extended reading I choose for this semester is The Most Human Human by Brian Christian. The topic of this book is the Turing Test, which is a test for judging the intelligence level of artificial intelligence. In the book, the author starts a discussion to compare the human’s brain structure to AI’s logic judging process. He uses some of his experience as a judge in Turing test with AI to illustrate their minds are still immature for a human. But at the end of the book, Christian states his prospect based on his experience and understand with AI that the potential ability of the AI would be powerful to become a spirit that beyond human’s level to understand. He notes, “Who make machines smarter than themselves, and so on, and the whole

Based on a book The Psychology of Intelligence by Jean Piaget (2005), he identifies two life forms of intelligence and the social influence on them, “Affective life and cognitive life, then, are inseparable although distinct. They are inseparable because all interaction with the environment involves both a structuring and a valuation, but they are none the less distinct, since these two aspects of behavior cannot be reduced to one another.” (p.6) so more practically, our human intelligence is easy to define individually; let anyone pass an IQ test and the result is apparent. But to identify the original intelligence of the brain since its born is a hard thing because the social influence has reshaped the intelligence of that brain. The brain is connected to other brains due to sharing information and knowledge. So the social behavior obtained by human is a value that can influence everyone’s ability. Same to the AI, if we want to build an AI, the process is like tracking a human thinking process despite of any influences from the society. This is difficult because we are unable to track the process of human individually in order to mimic it on the AI as Kerstin Dautenhahn writes, “ However, it is important to realize that these results are not as surprising as they might seem: human intelligence has strong routes in human social intelligence. ”(Kerstin, 2007) Then we have to focus on the area of human thinking process and this is a topic of psychology.

The mentioned intelligence problem is just one of the robotics problems that waiting for psychologists to solve and most of them are important for building the advanced AI. These are some representative combined topics for robotics and psychology to build the Strong