3Hz Computer, Hold the Transistors
This makes me think about what are the principled requirements for artificial intelligence. It might be designed, it must have sensors and actuators, and it must have “goals” in some manner.But, does AI require digital computers? Can you have AI with analog computers? Or, are even computers required? Perhaps AI only requires the (artificial) design of intelligent processes in the world.For instance, the autopilot (known as “the Pilot’s Assistant) was invented in 1912, long before digital computers. If that’s an example of AI, then there is a need for conceptual reformulation…