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What are people's thoughts on AI?

Will we reach a singularity?

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike?

Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why?

What does the future look like for AI? Will humans in the future be half robot/ half human because of the use of 'parts' for inhanced life expectancy?

Any comments, data, thoughts most welcome.

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Originally posted by elopawn
What are people's thoughts on AI?

Will we reach a singularity?

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike?

Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why?

What does the future look like for AI? Will humans in the future be hal ...[text shortened]... he use of 'parts' for inhanced life expectancy?

Any comments, data, thoughts most welcome.
What are people's thoughts on AI? - Vague question. I'm not going to bother trying to answer it.

Will we reach a singularity? - Huh?

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike? - Almost certainly.

Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why? - Huh?

What does the future look like for AI? Will humans in the future be half robot/ half human because of the use of 'parts' for inhanced life expectancy? - I guess it depends on what you mean by 'half robot'. I think people will incorporate more machinery into our bodies, some of which will be computerized. I can't think of a reason why we'd put AI in our bodies though. We have a perfectly good natural intelligence.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
I can't think of a reason why we'd put AI in our bodies though. We have a perfectly good natural intelligence.[/b]

Come to England, and ask someone to point out to you what we call "chav", then try saying humans have perfectly good natural intelligence again. 😉

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Originally posted by elopawn
[b]What are people's thoughts on AI?
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Originally posted by elopawn
What are people's thoughts on AI?

Will we reach a singularity?

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike?

...[text shortened]... ed life expectancy?

Any comments, data, thoughts most welcome.
What are people's thoughts on AI?

l we reach a singularity? What is singulanity?

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike?

Reason no, if you mean being aware. Learn, as to react because of
programming yes they do it now, but not with understanding.
All any computer is, is an adding machine, it simply is programmable
and that will not make anything aware, unless you are speaking
about Science fiction.

Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why?

What are you asking?

What does the future look like for AI? Will humans in the future be half robot/ half human because of the use of 'parts' for inhanced life expectancy?

no


Any comments, data, thoughts most welcome.

The reality is that all computers are adding machines placing bits
of voltages looking like 0 and 1 here and there within the machine.
This is not going to give understanding, being aware. It does make
it appear so if you look at things like playing chess, adding numbers,
and so on. Yet all it is really doing is acting on the programming
it has recieved.
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Originally posted by KellyJay
Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why?

What are you asking?

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The Turing Test is a test of Artificial Intelligence. The idea being that the machine has reached a level of AI where a human can have a conversation with it and not even realise that it is artificial. This does not necessarily mean it has to completely look human but you could have a conversation via a chat client (e.g. over the web).

I believe this will eventually be possible, but as KellyJay pointed out, it would be just artificial. It would be simulating emotions according to how it is programmed. It would not know why it is doing it.

You imagine a calculator. All it does is do calculations that the user instructs it to do. A computer is a much more advanced version of this that could handle much more complicated tasks. Hence it could be programmed to appear intelligent and aware.

Edit: Want to add that there are already AI conversation bots on the web. They aren't all that sophisticated but I am sure a very dumb person would believe it is human.

Here is one example: http://www.alicebot.org/

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Originally posted by elopawn
What are people's thoughts on AI?

Will we reach a singularity?

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike?

Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why?

What does the future look like for AI? Will humans in the future be hal ...[text shortened]... he use of 'parts' for inhanced life expectancy?

Any comments, data, thoughts most welcome.
What are people's thoughts on AI?

True artificial intelligence will not be achieved for decades, if not centuries. Our understanding of human intelligence is poor enough, let alone our ability to create a new form of intelligence.

Will we reach a singularity?

Not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean a point where a computer will become self-aware, and then enormous societal change will result? If so, the answer is probably 'yes', but as to when - see above.

Will there ever be a machine/robot that has the ability to learn from experience, can reason, understand natural language, show emotions and generally act humanlike?

Yes, but not for a long, long time.

Will a robot pass the Turing Test? When, why?

AI programs (not robots) pass the Turing Test all the time. The Turing Test doesn't state that AI programs have to demonstrate intelligence, just that they can interact with a human so that the human believes he/she was interacting with another human. All the AI program has to do is give the *illusion* of intelligence.

What does the future look like for AI? Will humans in the future be half robot/ half human because of the use of 'parts' for enhanced life expectancy?

I think that the future will be an increased human dependency on machine parts re intellect augmentation. Organic and machine intelligence will possibly evolve together, rather than remaining separate.

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Ivangrice summed it up better than I did. 😉

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i think sometime this century or the next. assuming the robots don't take over first.

researchers are progressing on multiple fronts.

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Oh. Yes, robots will pass the Turing Test with greater and greater capability.

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Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Oh. Yes, robots will pass the Turing Test with greater and greater capability.
Singularity by Wikipedia:

...refers to the advent of smarter than human intelligence, and the cascading technologicial progree assumed to follow...

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Originally posted by phgao
Singularity by Wikipedia:

...refers to the advent of smarter than human intelligence, and the cascading technologicial progree assumed to follow...
Thats correct. Also what i mean by " humans in the future be half robot/ half human" is that through us wanting to live longer will will have various chips/processors implanted in our bodies, eg in the heart.
Furthermore, when AI development becomes more complex and "singularity" has been achieved, A.I. may become "smarter than humans", although this is hard to comprehend. Thus, humans will find ways of putting 'chips' 'silicon brains' etc in themselves to increase their knowledge prowess.

Anyone else with any comments?

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Originally posted by elopawn
Thats correct. Also what i mean by " humans in the future be half robot/ half human" is that through us wanting to live longer will will have various chips/processors implanted in our bodies, eg in the heart.
Furthermore, when AI development becomes more complex and "singularity" has been achieved, A.I. may become "smarter than humans", although this ...[text shortened]... ns' etc in themselves to increase their knowledge prowess.

Anyone else with any comments?
If George Bush can do it, so can a robot with artificial intelligence.

It would be interesting to see a robot with wireless access to the world wide web in a hundred years from now.

I'd talk to someone who had that much knowledge and could compare and contrast all the different opinions. Let's call the robot "Professor".

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Originally posted by STANG
If George Bush can do it, so can a robot with artificial intelligence.

It would be interesting to see a robot with wireless access to the world wide web in a hundred years from now.

I'd talk to someone who had that much knowledge and could compare and contrast all the different opinions. Let's call the robot "Professor".
ALso there is a new chatbot called "cyc" which will be relesed soon...its developer says it has 'common sense' and it will reach singularity in 10 years.

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Originally posted by ivangrice

AI programs (not robots) pass the Turing Test all the time. The Turing Test doesn't state that AI programs have to demonstrate intelligence, just that they can interact with a human so that the human believes he/she was interacting with another human. All the AI program has to do is give the *illusion* of intelligence.

AI programs DO NOT pass the Turing test all the time. Remember the person interviewing has to be SANE! Try talking to ALICE or other chatbots and you will see that they are not human and thus can not pass the TT.

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