What do you think about the AI concept?

Question

Well...obviously the computers are "smarter" in some areas, than us(the humans...). A computer could be unbeatable in chess and all written world books could be stored on a simple personal computer. The greatest challenge however in the AI development, is how to force a computer to take it's own decisions, just like a human being??? The computer is alwaus limted in its "source code", thus unable to make own decisions...

I am sure the idea doesn't depend only on software developers, but a work in the areas of mathematics, biology, philosophy would be crucial in the future of the AI, to say the least.

So, what do you think? How far we are from a REAL ARTIFICIAL :) intelligence.

Thanks

Answer 1

First of all computers are not unbeatable in chess yet, checkers yes just recently it was discovered how.

I agree with you on this point that Artificial intelligence is to far in the future to imagine if we ever design it. We do have the AIM bots that you can have a conversation with such as smaterchild. The thing is that the converstations you have with them are pretty much worthless, because they don't say anything new.

I think that when you say artificial intelligence you mean be able to think like a human does, carry out a conversation, maybe recognize things.

I think carrying on conversations is the most complex things our brain does. I think the problem is we don't really know what criteria we use when choosing what to say.

I think in order to perfect AI, or even get up to a decent AI system we will study our brains and see how our brains are literally hardwired. comparing different people like some with autism to normal or prodigies.

AI will eventually be able to do simple tasks like navigate through a messy room, clean up after ourselves, any thing that you can write out a process for how it is done AI will be able to do but anything that takes real judgment is the hard to make and interacting with people like we do will be nearly impossible.

Answer 2

Wetware vs. Hardware

How far are we? Not too far if the goal is to truly emulate an organic brain.

IF... we are to make the analogy that 1 transistor = 1 brain cell, then think about this...

Based on our studies of insects.. it is theorized that an ANT has only 29,000 brain cells. YET, it is nearly automous, can search for food, has Sight, Smell, touch, hearing, and can adapt to changing environments, sense danger, defend itself, avoid obstacles, etc. -- Something that NO robotic project has yet to obtain.

If you damage a few brain cells the ant still survives. If you injury it's sensory organs like eyes, antennae, etc...it still survives.

Damage even 1 transistor and the whole computer fails. Even with millions of transistors, a computer can not move automously around it's environment, respond to danger by defending or fleeing -- and if it's sensors are damaged, it can not use the other sensors to compensate and still survive.

SO..... with all our technology, we can not even emulate a lowly ANT. How sad is that
Wetware still far exceeds us.

I know someone will probably say that the DARPA Grand Challenge proved that robots can navigate automously like Ants..but is that really the case? These are mutli-ton vehicles laden down with complex sensors running very specific software programs designed to do 1 thing extremely well. -- Hardly artificial intelligence

Answer 3

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