AI: In the near Future?

When do you thin AI will become reality and a household thing

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IMHO
The AI revolution, as it will be called in the future, is when humans feel they are communicating with an AI. When TV’s and Cars can read your mind (So to speak). Just a few words, a grunt, a motion, even silence.

It will be marketed as AI and perceived as intelligent.

My only problem is… What is AI but just a load of conjecture. All we can ever say is it looked intelligent..

 

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i think it really depends on what level you are talking about. i mean, if your talking about little robotic people then yes, thats going to take quite a while. But as far as 'smart' type technology, i think that it is happening before our eyes. think about some of the things they are doing with basic household appliances, and U-scans. sure, its not really that advanced for us when you think about it, those machines cannot really "think" for themselves, and they are pretty simple, but compare that to 50 years ago when we were just puting color onto t.v.'s.. Im not too interested in AI though... i just want a flying car.

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but on a seperate note, what do you think about AI being a cure for retardation, wether its a birth defect or injury...?

 

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Actually Nightfall,

Although it would be really cool for AI to be used to help people rebuild neural pathways, potentially treat Parkinsons and Alzheimers and wake people from deep comma's, it has one flaw....

Current AI's are "programmed" they aren't allowed to "live" and grow and be nutured.

This means that current AI's can't distinquish right from wrong (As what you see is right, might be wrong to someone else), which in certain respects means that a developing AI has to learn a sense of morality that even people sometimes have difficulty with.

Present AI's are more "Robot", that just utilise previously assigned scripts, so the insides of someones head would be repeated structures, captured events just spewed back in a chaotic state until the system master's order.

People could end up arguing with the machine internally if an interface of telepathy was developed. Arguing that they want to do something and the machine won't let them, or vice versa.

Some people might attempt to graft so far into such an interface that they take over the machine and network, while others might find the machine becoming far more advanced at that than them, and they become the victim of a hostile take over.

(Check your local Metal Hospital for References lol)

 

Not entirely true. Neural networks have no predefined program telling them what to do with the task at hand. They do have a pre-programmed scheme to adapt their parameters when necessary. Genetic algorithms, although primarily used for optimization problems, have also no knowledge of a programmed method to solve a specific task. They just let the best solution "evolve", as they evaluate each solution on their merits.

Neither can humans do this very well. We have to be told what is right and wrong before we can even attempt to distinguish it.

This is already the case. Your brain is working by repeating a very interesting but still relatively simple cell 100 billion times...

I argue with myself continuously... is that a bad thing? I more or less thought that it helped me to built different perspectives on the problem at hand.

Ummm, we are now way into the realm of fiction here...

 

Laptop Or Robot?

In PCWorld's 20th Anniversary Edition they showed a thing that allows your laptop to move around andd respond to different things by pictures. There was also an optional arm. They said that it go get a beer if you had a picture of a beer.

If it wwas a Windows Computer I would give it a picture of the stairs and tell it to go forward when it saw this. I wish Bill Gates'd do the same

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ok. so about something besides the brain.

how about someone who as has lost the use of a limb.. would it be possible to replace that with manmade parts to carry the messeges that would make that part of the body work again.

what im asking has probably been well argued, but i dont know alot about the subject, so thanks for humoring me.

 

If I am not mistaken manmade legs are currently being tested and developed for usage on humans who have lost the use of their legs. At the time it was still under remote controlled usage and not being marketed though, but I do not believe the answer to a man to machine interface(or visa versa) lies in AI(since all that is needed is a program that can interpret the signals sent from the brain to the legs(which I think would be simple, but I should not be quoted since I am have a relativly small education in advanced concepts and workings of human anatomy).

 

To go even a little more off topic... how about artificial senses?

artificial sight:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2547491.stm

artificial hearing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2697683.stm