WHat do you think of Artificial Intelligence ?

Question

What are your Opinions on Artificial Intelligence ?

Answer 1

It is inevitable that computers eventually are capable of doing any mental task that a human can, and do them faster to boot.

Even if we never figure out exactly what it is in our brains that makes us conscious, we don't need to in order to produce the above outcome. If necessary, we could simply simulate chemical processes that occur in cells, the production of a brain, and its operation on a chemical level. The amount of computation this would take is staggering (consider how much is spent on protein-folding models now), but it provides a minimum baseline of what we might do. If a simulation operates chemically exactly the way a human brain does, the only way it would NOT do what a human brain does is if there is some mystical immaterial 'consciousness' stuff... a rather unpopular theory these days.

And, of course, we may not need to start from that far down the scale. Perhaps we can simulate neuron operation generally. Or perhaps just communication patterns which produce thoughts. Or perhaps the thoughts themselves. No matter how we do it, a powerful enough computer might do it at a rate a hundred or a thousand times faster than a human would. It's just a matter of electronic muscle.

And it's just a matter of time.

Answer 2

It has not come very far. Of course some days it seems like it does not have very far to come ;). And if you mean the artificial intelligence that they are using to have some computer try and interpret me saying "no" over the phone and not being able to make it out when I am forced to say it over and over....it stinks. So far it can pi$$ people off for fragments of a cent per call, that's about it.

Answer 3

For all the money put into iAI is a dismal failure. Where are the intelligent robots? Where are the androids? The AI workers are using old dated statistical methods and backward theories while refusing to try new approaches like Fuzzy Logic or the communication theories of anthropologist Edward T. Hall. The Japanese and Chinese are so far ahead of us.Lucky for us they focus their energy of building smart commercial consumer products. Its a shame.

Answer 4

I agree that technologies will allow us to simulate our human intelligence in future. In this sense, if we reduce human being to machine, we can say, it`s capable of self-replicating (I don`t mean reproduction, but building computer which will simulate human mind). But WHO will force us to build human mind based on electric current or whatever ? None. So it`s just a matter of OUR wisdom how wise computers will be.

Another view: computers are programmed by us. And program in computer is absolutely dependent on his creator, so if AI say something, it`s just like his creator said it. No matter how intelligent and independent programmes are, you don`t need to know what exactly will your comp do, but you must know it is capable of saying insult, because you programmed it to be capable of.

Answer 5

I know for a fact that they are making more realistic robots that have skin and eyelashes and stuff. Soon people will be marrying robots and stuff. Creepy.

Answer 6

It will become more and more powerful as years go by, but will never have that creative 'spark' which distinguishes human intelligence.

Answer 7

I think it accounts for about 70% of college Professors and 98% of democrats.....

Answer 8

its not really intellegence, its just a calculator. or a big pong game...X 10000000000000000000000