Found myself awake letting the dog out at 4am and found this article, it's very thought-provoking and deals with some "big" issues. I still find it difficult to believe that machines will ever be able to think, though.
Why the future doesn't need us.
Showing posts with label artificial intelligence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label artificial intelligence. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Can Robots be Conscious?
Here's
an interesting article from the New York Times. The field of Artifical Intelligence started out with high hopes but has fallen short of its lofty goals so far. Computers still fail pathetically when faced with the Turing test (imitate a human without detection). With today's supercomputers it seems likely that we have more processing power than can be found in the brain of a very simple organism such as an Amoeba or tiny bug. However, we can't make computers do anything "intelligent" other than obey commands that we tell them to do. That's probably a good thing though, when you watch movies like "The Terminator".
-BT
an interesting article from the New York Times. The field of Artifical Intelligence started out with high hopes but has fallen short of its lofty goals so far. Computers still fail pathetically when faced with the Turing test (imitate a human without detection). With today's supercomputers it seems likely that we have more processing power than can be found in the brain of a very simple organism such as an Amoeba or tiny bug. However, we can't make computers do anything "intelligent" other than obey commands that we tell them to do. That's probably a good thing though, when you watch movies like "The Terminator".
-BT
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Robot Almost Passes The Turing Test? Yeah, Right
Dear reader,
So I just read an article about how a computer program named Elbot was able to make 3 of 12 judges think it was a human. My question is, where did they get these judges from? I went to the Elbot web site that you can use to interact with this robot, and within about 3 questions the poor robot was talking a load of absolute bollocks. Back to the drawing board I'm afraid, artificial intelligence researchers.
Time for today's quote:
Trying is the first step towards failure.
-Homer Simpson
Until the next time,
-Buford Twain
So I just read an article about how a computer program named Elbot was able to make 3 of 12 judges think it was a human. My question is, where did they get these judges from? I went to the Elbot web site that you can use to interact with this robot, and within about 3 questions the poor robot was talking a load of absolute bollocks. Back to the drawing board I'm afraid, artificial intelligence researchers.
Time for today's quote:
Trying is the first step towards failure.
-Homer Simpson
Until the next time,
-Buford Twain
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