Artificial thought belongs to artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence has lost its full meaning. From the very beginning, researchers on artificial intelligence were too optimistic, without any adequate means to fulfill their goals. They made ambitious announcements, they induced false hope for easy success, they lost public confidence, they eventually lost public funds. The words "artificial intelligence" remained, but the goals shrank dramatically. The researchers focused on small steps, and then they obtained many more successes and crisp achievements. Many techniques have been explored, such as expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy logic... in more and more application domains.
Internet gave birth to new kind of artificial intelligence.
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Artificial thought sounds better
"Artificial thought" is used as a replacement word for "artificial intelligence". You may encounter "artificial consciousness" with a slight different meaning. Both try and give strong meaning to "thinking" and "consciousness". Is there thinking without consciousness? Does a chess bot really think when playing a game? Does a chatterbot really think when answering your questions (try it out) ? From a human point of view, no "real" thinking without self-consciousness. There are many steps in self-consciousness. Thinking is at least the ability to combine several assertions into another new assertion. If this ability applies to self description properties, then we approach self consciousness.
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