Artificial Intelligence (AI)

My interest in this subject is growing because in my studies in industrial Technology computer aided manufacturing and design is getting big and so is supercomputer simulation. I understand there is much research ongoing to create truly thinking machines. The software is the key to a thinking machine. So is the unbelievable processing speeds needed. President Barack Obama need to make this a national goal to give this country the means to create thinking machines that could change how we run our economy, defense, science and technology etc. The Japanese has made this their national goal to beat the United States. The creation of thinking machines will revolutionize the IT industry. The Japanese know this, whoever creates the world's first thinking machine controls the world.

http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/

 

sounds really scary......did you watch or read 2001: a space odyssey...

imagine a computer able to use its intelligence to kill off man.....

 

quite a few movies like that with those nightmare scenarios

Terminator for one...

and Eagle Eye..

and of course, the Matrix...

Even on the video game level, consumers want the most sophisticated level of AI imaginable, to replace real life players. They want AI that's capable to being presented with a situation and its variables, that is able to determine actions and basically use independent thought. It's the ultimate level of competition in a video game, simulating a real life opponent.

Imagine that sort of AI, in the body of a T-800 class terminator.

'I'll be back'

 

And Blade Runner.

 

Fear not petty- in teh near future, NFL platers, UFC fighters, Boxers and all these pro athletes will be robotic in nature, not only mentally (like they currently are) but physically as well. Human athletes will be replaced by robots

Think of the F1 racing, all those fans are chanting for what exactly? For the best engine to win. This will be the case in other sports as well, where the team with the best geeks will be the best in teh leagues, and franchise managers will know that robots dont require a salary, so the investment will be good for them.

Revenge of the geeks is what i say, but what these geeks should keep in mind is to NEVER build a machine that can out-think them..........which is the ultimate prophecy of T800

 

This has becomes very dangerous to create Artificial Intelligence. This could spell a true end to human race for good, why are we keep doing this to create a machine that could controls this world of the government?

That's far too dangerous! :smt011

AAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDD...This man said that in the far, far future that we will merge with machines and that is, our memories will last for thousand of years. Here's my answer to this: FUCK NO!

I'd rather to stay as human, thank you very much!

 

The trick is in how you define a 'thinking machine'. What is easy for a human, versus what is difficult, may well be inverted with a machine. For example, every pc connected to this site can 'think', it can multiply a random 8 digit number by another and yield the correct answer. Extremely few humans can accomplish this unaided. Yet almost all humans can look at a picture of Cindy Crawford and Roseanne Barr, and distinguish which woman is the more beautiful. Extremely few computers can.

I was involved in a few projects featuring research into commercially-applied AI, most involve the discovery of patterns in (seemingly) random data and extrapolating the likely outcome of those patterns, assuming their survival. I'll be the first to say that the hard-core research into AI is likely being done by various governments who cashier theirs and other countries best minds into a 'covert-budget' operation, throwing a magnitude and diversity of resources at them that would stagger an onlooker.

But we out here in the private sector are a VERY long way off - I'm talking about decades before Joe Schmuck can buy software that can accurately predict which of two laws most humans would perceive as being more 'just'. That, plus backup power-supply to any rogue AI creation is almost certainly on separate circuits and switches - simply pull the plug.

 

meh... I think biotech is going to be the future over this hubbub of A.I. Truth is that we don't even know how the human mind works let alone how to program something to think like a human. Too many steps missing. We would first have to figure out how humans work in order to make beings that could think on thier own.

 

EW! Why must we research on Artificial Intelligence? It's far too dangerous to create robot beings, but why are we doing this? Don't we realize that if we keep pushing to create AI, there's greater chance that we'll be gone for good and they'll be here to replace us.

 

I've always been strongly interested in AI because it's one of the few science fiction themes that is practical to me. I don't think we'll ever discover sentient, alien life or build ships that can go faster than the speed of light (I don't even know if the latter is theoretically plausible) but a sentient machine really is possible. A human brain is just a biological machine, there's no reason why it couldn't be replicated in the same way we've created synthetic hearts and other organs.

As interesting as the prospect of AI is, I don't think that sentient androids should be created 1) until the time comes when humanity will be tolerant of vastly different kinds of sentient beings and 2) if they will suffer like we do.

I've only skimmed through the thread but this doesn't worry me, as long as it was done non-violently. A world without humans does not upset me.

 

Are you going to have children? If you plan to have them, why would you push to have children? Isn't there a great chance that they could kill you when you get older? It is all in the program. You program them to be good and they will. The other thing is it leads to better technology. A good example is the computer you have now. It use to take at least a whole room to do what your computer does. I am sure we will have ways to stop them if it gets bad but that is assuming if we are still around. AI is very very very far. We might get hit by a comet before it can happen.