How close i science to creating a free thinking humanoid robot.
2006-09-24 07:42:04 · 13 answers · asked by Francis7 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Never! Unlike Humans, robots can only compare stored data. Example: When next you use Microsoft Word, try typing some infamous foreign name or word. Yes, Microsoft Word will underline the word as misspelled, and not necessarily because word is incorrectly spelled, but simply because Microsoft programmers are not or were not familiar with the word or foreign language. Robots just do not think and cannot reason! Also check-out Human or Robot? - http://www.geocities.com/ulafrique/nanotechnology.html
2006-09-24 10:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by L'Afrique 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We're pretty close (within 10 years) of getting a program to mimic natural language proficiently in certain limited topics.
We're nowhere near (200 - 300 years perhaps) of building a program which could fool people into thinking it was a real human being.
On another level completely, we may never be able to build a fully conscious self aware android without using DNA to build an organic brain to house the Bose-Einstein condensate necessary for consciousness.
2006-09-24 15:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by Mike N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 years
2006-09-24 14:44:51 · answer #3 · answered by puppet 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A robot is basically a computer, a computer basically calculates things. To create a free thinking, emotional robot you would need to have a way to program emotion and self thought for it to calculate, which is (almost) impossible.
2006-09-24 16:00:14 · answer #4 · answered by Yonnnie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Free thinking? I'm not sure "they" would allow that. Ethical questions abound. Would an android have rights? What if we "killed" it. The technology will almost certainly be DNA based which would complicate the issue. When? Within 2 decades.
2006-09-24 14:49:16 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're progressing quickly, but so quick as to have fully functioning androids any time soon. I say we're still a few hundred years from having Lt. Cmdr. Data walking around & having conversations with us.
2006-09-24 14:50:31 · answer #6 · answered by amg503 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell no, not more bods on the island. We're overcrowded as it is. Will they get loads of android based benefits too? Probably not actually as they will at least speak English and be programmed to work.
2006-09-24 14:54:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno. depends on how quickly organic or biocomputers come around. silicon technology is too slow and clumsy to handle even the simplest of organic thought processes. we have taken around 1.5 billion years to get to this stage in our evolution. silicon technoogy would be around the equivalent of a primordial ooze. i dont think it will take that long however as technology especially microprocessor technilogy is doubling in capacity roughly every year and a half and there is already fruitful research on light switches that is a precursor of perhaps the next paradigmal shift in computing.
2006-09-25 22:54:26 · answer #8 · answered by frankiethebear2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are already amongst you even though you know not.
Beware of any person purporting to have six clitori.( not being human I am assuming the plural follows in the same way as cactus ??).
2006-09-24 14:55:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apart from carrying enough energy, the technology is already there. Software-wise it is already possible.
Cost-effective applications are not yet there.
2006-09-24 16:09:44 · answer #10 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋