How long until Artificial Intelligence?

Question

If AI is possible, given current technological trends, how long would you estimate we have until such a technology is created?

Answer 1

The answer depends on your definition of AI.

"Weak AI" has been around for quite some time. There has been a very primitive form of it put into the computers in cars for the past 20 years or so. Weak AI is a learning algorithm system that is for a specific task, such as the operation of an engine. Outside the environment that it was programmed for, it is basically worthless. This is also the type of AI used in video games.

"Strong AI" is artificial general intelligence. To my knowledge, it has not been implemented yet. Strong AI would be able to adapt to different circumstances, be self-motivated, among other traits. (Honestly, if people would stop arguing about what traits it should have and just work on the darn thing, they might get somewhere.)

Given current technology, it can be done now. The computing power exists now to put together such a machine. The problem is the software.

I have been working on the subject for over 20 years, and only in the past year or so have I solved the psychological issues involved with an artificial general intelligence.

With the right funding, I should have a working model of a creative thinking, self motivated, problem solving artificial intelligence system in less than a year. Since I have been working on my own dime, though, it may be a little bit longer.

Okay, some of you will probably think this is a little boastful, but time will tell if I am right.

Answer 2

At what level? C3PO? HAL 2000? Sonny? Personality? Self-learning? Self-Aware?

Even with the huge computer arrays in Asia that are used to model earth, it wouldn't be enough yet.

At best it will remain "Artificial" for a long time. Guided by rules and predetermined responses with limited learning.

Lets say you reach enough technology to put an AI in a biped robot for domestic use as the Japanese are trying to work towards. What would happen if you put it in a raft on the Colorado river going through the Grand Canyon? It would be totally out of it's range of normal environment. That level of AI is still decades away.

Answer 3

You haven't been paying your furbee any attention lately now have you? I think all of the abandoned furbee's are going to rise up from out of the bottom of closets and garbage dumps all over the world with their creepy little eyes and their strange broken furblish and just teach us all a lesson in artificial intelligence.

We already have A.I. It exists...


Here is a funny story for you...

My youngest son, when he was about 3 or 4 was fascinated with the computer and I couldent keep him from messing with it if I left it unattended for even a second. There was this advertisment for business-type web page builders that offered an interactive computer generated woman, that spoke whatever words you typed into the little box. I saved it and whenever I left the room, I programmed her to tell my son, by his name, to stay away from the computer while mommy was gone or she would spank him and things like... **** Don't you Dare touch that keyboard! and... here comes mommy you better not touch that! He became so leary of her and the creapy electric voice she had, he never touched it without permission again... LOL

I have no idea what kind of long term damage it will have but at least I stopped getting files deleted and buisness receipts deleted and lost, whenever I had to stop working to go to the bathroom!

Answer 4

AL will remember us as its distant creators and ancestors. AL has been here for a long time. Actually it won't be long before we are the inferior, expendable ones due to our historically proven inability to control our greed, gluttony, and most destructive emotions. The Earth is now beyond its capability to sustain the destruction caused by human involvement. Its only a matter of a short time before we cause our own extinction. We are already billions more than can be maintained and the results are the same as breeding rats in a box.

Answer 5

What makes you imagine we are wise? we've memory and tactics that lead us to conclusions. the large distinction between us and a robotic is that we do not use algorithms. We make guesses and performance a ultimate ability to keep sensory ideas in a significant way (to attraction to close that pointy eco-friendly blades are purely grass, no longer deadly spikes and so on). we are quite complicated, you understand. i'd say we are one hundred years off from making some thing remotely as complicated as ourselves. We ought to under no circumstances be in a position to. We did not evolve to appreciate our personal mind, after all.

Answer 6

Think about what you just said ! Your on a computer arent you...They have computers now that can just about think for them selves..They have a chip they can put in your arm that will tell just about all your life history.. Next you'll see a chip they put in your head that has more on it than you can learn in 5 life times (watch), going to be a sad world then..Think about that a world of walking talking computers.. WOW Bad news... The computer has already taken over, in all ways and sooner or later it will kill us one way or the other.. Good Question, I'm 65 and bet I see it..(SURE HOPE NOT!!!) ROB

Answer 7

what's that site where you can chat with a computer and she replies pretty accuratley and asks you questions etc?that's pretty good - I ma just a comp so the future is now!!

Answer 8

we already have AI programmers.. they're necessary for video games, ect. and we also have sony QRIO.

Answer 9

So A.I. Is here? Where can I buy it?

Answer 10

ill get to it sometime