What skills would a NAI-4 have in 2011?

[Langy]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I wouldn't say it's easy. I do agree that Lightning Calculator and Intuitive Mathematician are TL7- traits for 'AIs'. But tell me, how many breakthroughs in math have been performed by computers? How many theorem proofs have been written by computers? I keep reading that this or that person wrote such-and-such a solution to Einstein's equations. I never heard of a computer device doing on its own. Ease problems by brute-forcing them by superior calculation speed - yes. Actually doing stuff that falls outside that (like figuring out the axioms of planimetry) - that's different.

I don't think a nonsapient AI would be able to do that kind of stuff no matter what level of Mathematics they have. This kind of thing requires creativity, and NAIs don't perform creative tasks. Their Mathematics skill should only be for modeling the kind of stuff TL8 software can currently do (solve mathematical equations, mostly), not write theorem proofs (except the really simple, non-novel, ones).

While not required, they seem to be the desired skills pretty much. Anyway, Writing and Computer Operation (and Literacy!) are probably good things. Body Language can both help the AI understand the person, and help many people deal with other people.

I don't think Body Language would be all that useful, because this is TL8. I don't think you'd interact with the AI through a webcam or anything - it'd be through a terminal interface or maybe a voice interface, but the voice interface would probably have a bunch of bugs, since speech recognition tech isn't all that great yet.