Each and everyone of us has been through this but we as humans are already "Strong" intelligent. We possess the ability to learn and form connections which is what makes it effective.
The resistance to the approach you mentioned comes when you you proceed to build up a giant scaffolding of predicate logic without there being any true "intelligence". This was tried in the 80's with the promise of Strong AI around the corner. We all know how that turned out.
Admittedly, these expert logic systems can make what sometimes seem like surprisingly intelligent inferences based on the rules you give it. However, they only know the facts you give them and they don't seem to possess the ability to "learn". It turns out intelligence isn't just a summation of facts, rules and hierarchies.
I personally think that our best chance of creating a Strong AI entity is through whole brain emulation. If we can mimic the neurons, synaptic connections, chemical interactions and other processes of the mind to a certain level of accuracy I think we could achieve some level of AI. Kurzweil is always talking about brain-scan resolution and how it is advancing at an exponential rate (as is all technological progress).
So, if we were one day able to scan a persons brain and emulate it at a reasonable speed in a detailed enough model I think we could have a reasonable "copy" of that persons persona. Alternatively, we may just model the processes without directly taking a scan of a human first. In this way, we may truly "teach" the AI as you suggest. It would start out like an infant with no ability to communicate coherently. We would provide it with stimuli and it would advance as a human does (although perhaps not at the same rate).
The resistance to the approach you mentioned comes when you you proceed to build up a giant scaffolding of predicate logic without there being any true "intelligence". This was tried in the 80's with the promise of Strong AI around the corner. We all know how that turned out.
Admittedly, these expert logic systems can make what sometimes seem like surprisingly intelligent inferences based on the rules you give it. However, they only know the facts you give them and they don't seem to possess the ability to "learn". It turns out intelligence isn't just a summation of facts, rules and hierarchies.
I personally think that our best chance of creating a Strong AI entity is through whole brain emulation. If we can mimic the neurons, synaptic connections, chemical interactions and other processes of the mind to a certain level of accuracy I think we could achieve some level of AI. Kurzweil is always talking about brain-scan resolution and how it is advancing at an exponential rate (as is all technological progress).
So, if we were one day able to scan a persons brain and emulate it at a reasonable speed in a detailed enough model I think we could have a reasonable "copy" of that persons persona. Alternatively, we may just model the processes without directly taking a scan of a human first. In this way, we may truly "teach" the AI as you suggest. It would start out like an infant with no ability to communicate coherently. We would provide it with stimuli and it would advance as a human does (although perhaps not at the same rate).