Is (Human Level) Artificial Intelligence Possible?

Question

Can we create computers which can think, learn, be creative, and have human level intelligence? If not, what degree IS possible?

Answer 1

If they can't get artificial flavors to taste right, I'm sure that they won't be able to create artificial intelligence to a human degree.

Answer 2

No, how would you be able to prove it anyways? Computers are input-output only.

You could ask a computer "how are you today?" and a long time ago some programmer gave it 400 different responses to that question. It can't think about which one it will output, it will pick one based on some logic probability thing that was programmed in. It doesn't even know what the 400 different responses mean. and if no one bothers to program the computer with anything it won't even be able to give you a response at all. Computers are very non-intelligent. Artificial Intelligence is an oxymoron.

Answer 3

There are some elements of human intellegence that defy programming logic, because they are illogical

Star Trek and Star Trek Next Generation dwelled on this a lot with Vulcans and Data. The ice cold logic machines.

Can you make a machine that appreciates the subtle emotions of a smile? That looks up at the stars and wonders?

It's like the difference between play acting and method acting.

In play acting you just laugh. In method acting you find something inside to to evoke a belly laugh. You go to a sorrow to cry.

In play acting you act like you're crying.

You can teach a machine to play act, but can they draw on experiences?

If a machine short circuits, crashes, has a bad sector, does it or can it relive the pain? Is there pain?

If there is no pain in the intellegence process than we can never let AI progress too far for it would be too cold and analytical.

You're talking a HAL2000.

It is possible to create an AI robot that, for example, when sent out to buy groceries makes an alternative decision when it finds the store closed, without having to phone home for instructions.

It can search a phone book, consult a GPS map and find a suitable alternative, navagate there and get home. That is possible right now, although complex to build.

Answer 4

Yes, of course we can...

Just look at how far we have already come with computing from the old-school *mechanical* Difference Engines of Babbage....those devices, they barely were able to add and subtract on a par comparable with what you see in your average uber-cheap Chinese made *calculator watch*.

And when you look further back still at human history and prehistory and realize, 90% of what passes for human intelligence is *artificial anyway* courtesy of Culture....well, it really is only a matter of time before on a level of data we do isolate the x-factors that separate the humans from the machines.

Search "emotive computing" and robotics at the site below, you should find an article less than six months old detailing one set of reasearch probing the edges of just such a thing. ;)

Answer 5

It may be possible to simulate (Human Level) Artificial Intelligence - simulate being the operative word here. However, the fact will always remain that a programmed simulated intelligence cannot, in logical terms, be defined as having actually acquired human intelligence.
It is also interesting to note that human intelligence in itself is fashioned by nurture via other humans, technology, reading etc. as well as being fashioned by nature.
This can suggest that human intelligence is fifty per cent artificial and fifty per cent natural or inherent. It would appear that artificial intelligence in droids or computers cannot be defined as natural (organic), hence, it is not possible to produce human level intelligence in computers.

One could suggest that artificial intelligence can only be said to reach human level intelligence if human beings or master narratives such as science redefine and revalue intelligence all together and begin to include machines made by man as part of the human race. It seems absurd, yet one could suggest that it is probably contemplated by theorists and social projectionists.

It is perhaps possible to create artificial intelligence in humans seeing as we are charged with electricity and can be susceptible to outside manipulation and control namely, external forces of influence and conditioning.

Answer 6

One helpful thought experiment is John Searle's "The Chinese Room Argument." It questions the ability to follow instructions vs actual understanding. His article, I find, is one of the most compelling arguments against A.I.

That said, the only thing science has consistently shown to be true is that it was wrong in the past. I don't think we will see the emergence of A.I. until much later in history, if at all. Unfortunately, your question is one that will only be answered through the course of time.

Answer 7

I believe it is possible. Computers can already learn to a degree and use past data to make decisions. Give it time.

Answer 8

yes, it is possible. I believe that they have already created artificial inetelligence at human level and it will eventually surpass humal level.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Yes. Google "kurzweil" or pick up a copy of his book "The Singularity is Near". He predicts it will happen within about 25 years.

Answer 11

Not at this point. all we can do is create AI that can consider millions of preprogrammed solutions to probloems and select the best (think chess).