Rise of the Machines

[Freedom4all]

I agree 100%. Advances in tech occur all the time with amazing results. The B2 and F117 could not fly with out computers. Facial recognition, voice recognition, cars that are 'learning' how to drive them selves. All amazing feats. How ever, the articles I have read have all agreed that the computing power for true AI is still somewhere in the future. The ability to actually think and learn like "Data" from Star Trek or HAL 9000 involve massive amounts of code, algorithms and sensory abilities that are as yet no in existence.

While it is possible that the military or other private corporations are farther along than publicly acknowledged, nothing I have read or heard indicates that we have anything to worry about for the near future.

Sure....how do we know you are not one of.......them? :unsure:

 

[southwind]

I take it you were there for the Blackbird's ignaugural flight in 1964, Garf or did you find out about it 20 years later like us humans ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71_Blackbird

 

[Garfield1966]

Designing a supersonic plane that is faster than existing super sonic planes is not the same as designing a computer with AI when there is nothing even close to true AI.

The former is going from a 72 vet to a 2009 ZR-1, the latter is like going from a horse and buggy to the space shuttle. I think a few steps were skipped over.

If you choose to believe that Hal 9000 is around the corner, knock your self out. I'll wait till I see some evidence.

 

[nq6v]

Dr. Steven Pinker, Cognitive Psychologist, MIT wrote in a book "How the Mind Works, that a computer works very fast, and is "In series" I belive. He compared a living brain as being "In parallel." It was a long time since I have read the book, but he implies that unless a computer can be built like a living brain, it will be unable to come to decisions like a living brain. A computer can only mimic a living brain. It cannot make decisions like a living brain can.It has no intuition, does not have common sence, nor emotions. I really do not think we will ever see AI. Nor will we ever see warp drives and transporters or energy weapons carried by a soldier using a tiny energy cell.

We like to fantasize about space battles, and alien socioities,. but the only last frounteer for us all is Alaska. A very chosen few will revisit the moon, occupy a space station, and I really doubt we will spend the money to go to mars when ROBOTS controlled by men here on Earth do a passable job of exploration.

 

[delldude]

Wow, some of you really need to seek help about your obsession.

We put up with yours for eight years......lighten up.

Bet you're all giddy and touchy feely since 1-20-09.....

 

[Garfield1966]

NQ6V,

I don't know a great deal about computers or the human brain, but I agree that the human brain is to computers what Homo sapien is to Australopithecus. There is nothing that currently can even come close. I do not share your belief about the future though. While AI is something that we think of as sci-fi for the time being, I would not rule it out. No one thought we would fly much less leave our planet yet we did. Perhaps someone will figure out how to use a worm hole or a black hole. Perhaps someone will figure out a way to 'bend' space. Who knows. Perhaps one day our species will have an encounter with other life forms who will share their knowledge once we have grown up a bit more. The possibilities are endless. I wish I could come back in a 1,000 years to see what has happened.

 

[UAL_TECH]

We put up with yours for eight years......lighten up.

Bet you're all giddy and touchy feely since 1-20-09.....

Play Nice now...