do you believe that artificial intelligence will become so smart that it might replace us in the next 100years

Question

technology advances at a incredible rate,do you believe that someday robots, or machines might surpass us mankind in inteligence?,thanks for answering

Answer 1

Not likely, at least any time soon.
It is an interesting subject and makes for some excellent movies, and when you look at the computing power of a computer alone since computers can easily calculate things that make us look like idiots.
The thing is that these programs are relatively simple compared to us. Modern robotics is pretty astounding, but at the moment we can't even combine the our total knowledge of robotics into one robot, it is just too much. Instead we are left creating many different robots that each specialize in certain fields, neither of which compare to us.
The human brain is made up of millions upon millions of neurons which are each connected to thousand of other neurons creating a nervous system the like of which we might never be able to create.
Just think of it like this. We can unconsciously run a marathon, alone using actuation that roboticists can't even fathom, and at the same time contimplate the meaning of the universe. Pretty awesome.

Answer 2

Yes it will.
But be sure to understand what artificial intelligence really means. Its in auto-pilots, and vending machines, and microwave ovens, installation software. Its taking the straight line without choosing anything stupid. That is not at all the same as AH (artificially human).

Games are a great example. People complain often that the opponent in a game is stupid. They complain that the AI is crap. But its not the AI. On a battle map, to go from point A to point B for "artificial intelligence" is a straight line, go around obstacles. But players would ambush that every time. They want it to maybe go straight, maybe flanking, maybe a fakeout then up the side, and maybe even a random chance of something stupid because sometimes it works.

But thats not AI, thats AH. AI is done all the time but AH projects (art, music, games, anything with some creativity) are much more interesting. Its a giggle amoung AI programmers that the difference between AI and AH is to throw out some of the intelligence and add more randoms.

Answer 3

It depends on what you define as "intelligence". For example, a computer can carry out millions (billions?) of computations a second, something humans can't do. A computer can also access every single fact stored in it, i.e. memory (e.g. Wikipedia, Britannica, etc.), and is generally a lot better at retrieving it than humans. Computers have replaced humans already in many domains - robots carry out most work now in just about every factory.

However, you can't have a *real* conversation with a computer. I doubt a computer will find anything funny, how would it know? It can be programmed to laugh in response to your laugh, but it won't care, really. And anyway, it would have to be programmed by humans, so I would think a computer is limited by the person programming it.

Dipping into the domain of sci-fi, and assuming we can make super intelligent, self reliant computers (the ones that can produce their own energy source, plug themselves into the wall, etc.), we would also have to assume they would want to "take over the world". But they can't randomly choose to do so, they have to be programmed to do so. The question will therefore always be deferred to the programmer: are there people on earth crazy and mean enough to write destructive programs? (and I fear the answer is 'yes')

Answer 4

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