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AI is a crapshoot… or is it?

AI is a strange thing to think about. It reminds me of that movie with Robin Williams as a robot, Bicentennial Man. Will it someday be possible for machines to completely understand humans, taking requests and carrying on intelligent conversations?

Sure, I believe that this can happen… when the most massive motherboard of information is created. Its like taking the 20 Questions computer game and multiplying it my a trillion. (20Q is that game that guesses what your object is by asking you a few questions about it)

Even though AI could come extremely close to full interaction with humans, I still wouldn’t call it fully ‘intelligent.’ It would never be able to think for itself because everything it relates its information back to is a computer program developed by human researchers and really smart computer guys.

There is that line that I don’t think ever will be crossed (as it is in the Robin Williams movie… where they declair him human at the end and he dies of natural ‘human’ causes). No matter how much information is inputted into AI… it is never officially thinking for itself.

Its a scary thought thats good for the cinemas… but I don’t see it ever happening in real life.

Unless of course it’s developed by Mircosoft… and there’s a glitch (GASP!).

October 2, 2008 Posted by sjfc15 | Uncategorized | , , | No Comments Yet