3. part short response
1. I don't think they will ever make it to a true AI. I think they will make several things that LOOK like AI but will really just be running complex programs. not really "thinking" in the sense we do.
there's SO much emotion and subconscious, drives that make up human "thinking" that a machine will never have.
2. If they do get close to AI they will have created a Psychopath.
One of the things that separates us from other animals, is our ethics, empathy and our social natures. All of that works together with our social upbringing, Plus our Built in heart/minds so that most humans have an automatic connection with others and an aversion to harming fellow humans and even animals. A desire for love and companionship.
There's no machine that needs a companion. No way to really build in a fail safe ethic into the programing. If it's a "thinking" computer it would probably be able to override that programing in favor for what it considered "better" . And what a machine mind might consider better for itself or the environment is anyone's guess.
The book and film I-Robot had robots that had 3 basic laws to make them only helpful to humans and never a danger, but the laws themselves taken to a purely pragmatic and logical conclusion meant fascist state run by the computers.
3. One aspect of the AI concept that seems plausible is a computer that exponentially became smarter and smarter (computing faster and faster and crunching more and more information and self creating programs to solve new problems) and final becomes so smart that it cannot even reasonably communicate with humans. It'd be like talking to cows. A computer "mind" like that may not even bother with humans as it tries to solve super-sub-atomic mysteries of nature, just for "fun".
Technology always has 2 edges. I think robots and whatever comes of the AI work is the new FIRE. It could have great use but I hope a lot of people won't be hurt before we get a solid handle on it.
The crazy thing is we can talk about this stuff and it's Real, NOT some sci-fi ideas. But real life issues today. we are living in the future.
Last edited by revelarts; 10-26-2014 at 10:49 PM.
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