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To: rbg81
Image recognition algorithms are extremely good now, to the point where they rival humans. They will eventually surpass humans. Also, did you catch the Jeopardy games where a computer (Watson) handily beat past Jeopardy champions?

Except that's not really AI; it's [a very specific] pattern recognition.

One of the major remaining hurdles for AI is the ability to be able to intelligently participate in a conversation. Once that is breached, a lot of people whose job is producing hot air can be replaced.

That's a goal [the turing test], but not as much a major hurdle as you think, in the way you think.
One of the things that AI has to do is "goal planning", say taking "build aPL/I compiler targeting MIPSV" and generating such given only the spec for MIPSV and PL/I.

The other thing about AI is the ability to rate, publish and share outcomes in a globally distributed fashion. This would potentially allow it to “learn” much faster than any single human could.

And?
Lots of social networking sites do this half-way w/ 'like' and 'share', that says nothing about the level of intelligence therein.

15 posted on 03/28/2015 12:04:40 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Both image recognition and question/answer matching are major AI building blocks. And, yes, I know all about the Turing test—just didn’t name it.

In the end, it doesn’t have to be “real” intelligence (not that we even understand what that is). It has to be good enough to carry out tasks in a way that approximates (or exceeds) how an actual human being would perform.

At the end of the day, a lot of people just do their jobs by going through the motions. Not always a lot of intelligence or initiative involved. People also fake things like sincerity and caring all the time. If someone says something in a given context and the AI can instantly look up the most highly rated, appropriate response, then it will come across as better than most people


21 posted on 03/28/2015 1:51:35 PM PDT by rbg81
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