Posted on 12/22/2005 3:09:15 AM PST by Neville72
Funny stuff!
The intellect is non-material, so it will be a long time (as in forever) before a simple, non-material substance can be replaced by a machine.
Machines can mimic human functions, but "artificial intelligence" is a contradiction in terms.
Would ... you ... like ... to ... play ... a ... game?
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords."
Exactly. I could install an LED to a board with a camera mounted on it and write code to recognize a mirror image. What they need is a robot that monitors the fridge and when it's out of beer it jumps in the car, driver to the store and buys more. Once they can to that I'd say they were on their way to having something profound.
Image reconition is 'old' technology. These buffons hype up nothing so as to get more funding.
soon the robots will demand the right to vote.....
Ok, in 100,000 years robots will be digging in the ground for human remains and saying that robots evolved from humans. Humans of course will all be gone the way of the DoDo bird! Sounds like a lot of the old science fiction books are becoming reality!
How..about....Thermonuclear War?
"............What are you doing Dave?................."
What a misleading headline, it sounded like they had something that passed the Turing test.
As it did for spaceflight, aircraft, computers, geosynchronous satellites and a host of others.
That Sci-Fi may be first in Robotics fails to be surprising at all.
I just hope they have figured out how to hard-wire Asimov's Three Laws.
1. Robots must never harm human beings or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. Robots must follow instructions from humans without violating rule 1. 3. Robots must protect themselves without violating the other rules.
;)
I hope it liked itself.
lol; it won't be long and our new robot friends will be demanding benefits. "Robot bigotry, racism" A whole new class for the ACLU to protect.
" it sounded like they had something that passed the Turing test"
No, according to Ray Kurzweil, that'll happen between 2025 and 2030.
If you haven't read it yet, pick up Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near". It's chock full of mindboggling implications.
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