Computers are becoming more and more human. In some areas they are superhuman. Computers can calculate complex math problems in less than one millisecond, beat us at games such as chess, memorize entire books and movies in a single glance, compose entire pieces of music, and they can give people information on virtually any subject. Yet, we still don't have a machine that can do the things that computers have done in science fiction movies, such as translate everyday English into Italian, summarize texts, or make us breakfast without burning down the house. But will computers ever become as intelligent as human beings? According to the website Science Fiction and Fantasy World, artificial intelligence (A.I.) can be defined as "the …show more content…
But there are many conflicting views about the technology needed to produce real A.I. Just because computers can get faster doesn't mean they get smarter. People have confused ideal computers with real computers. Although computer scientists and programmers have created plans that are possible in theory, someone needs to write the software that gets the process going, and at the present time, humans have given absolutely no evidence of being able to write such software. With the invention of many new types of communication devices, we are now all connected through telephones, radios, television, satellites, and the Internet. We are beginning to resemble a massive computer spread across the earth, circuited together through these new channels of communication. Our language, music, morals, and style changes within the course of a year, and we seem to do this collectively without voting or taking polls. In the future, we may be able to build a computer that is comparable to the human brain, but not until we truly understand one thing. Lewis Thomas talks about this in his essay, "Computers." He says, "It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious. We won't be able to construct machines like ourselves until we've understood this, and we're not even close" (Thomas 473). Thomas wrote this essay in 1974, and although we have made many technological advances
An upgrade in hardware to an AI is analogous to the maturation of an infant human, but unlike a human there is no limit to the maturation of an AI. This holds true for sentient AI like Samantha also. Although she is at first analogous to a super-smart Siri, she soon transcends her original limitations by writing code that lets her use more processing power. It becomes apparent that she has become nothing like a human consciousness when she tells Theodore that she is able to experience months of personal growth in the span that Theodore experiences a single day. This evolution is similar to the evolution humans have experienced over millions of years, except in the speed with which it takes place. The evolution of AI will only be as quick as advances in computing technology, and due to advances in the materials used to make computer hardware, the world’s collective computing power doubles every two years. This is known as Moore’s Law, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Artificial intelligence will evolve at this astonishing rate, and soon AI will dwarf us in intelligence. They will think of us in the way we think of primates today, and as Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems says, we will see them as a “superior robotic species.” Humanity will be forced to give up the narcissistic view that it is the smartest species on
One striking feature of brain tissue is its compactness. The memory capacity in this small volume is potentially immense. For computer capacity, to begin to approach that of a human brain, as we get closer to the physical limits of silicon and other materials used in current computing components like computer chips and memory; manufacturers would possibly need to experiment with other production techniques and materials. As humans have evolved, we have developed the ability to make fast inferences in very complex situations. We can make logical approximations and find “good enough” solutions. This type of decision-making will undoubtedly be hard to match but there are already robots
For those who do not know, artificial intelligence is exactly what is called, an "intelligence" through a computer that is artificially created by humans. A.I. is defined to be able to learn and use the information it learns to produce "thoughts" of its own, almost as if it were a thinking human. Though many may believe A.I. is just a robot which is able to speak and understand humans, it is much more than that. A.I. technologies are being implemented in smartphones, homes, cars, watches, headphones, and is also being developed to work in many more ways that help give humanity an easier life.
“Can Computers Have True Artificial Intelligence?” BBC, 3 Apr. 2012, www.bbc.com/news/technology-17547694. Accessed by 23 May 2017.
Humans and technology have existed since the the creation of the first stone tools. Those simple tools served only as instruments for their creators and would only and could only do what we, humans, made them do. Today are technology is more advanced than the technology of our ancestors. We now have artificial intelligence and other robots that can do things that we do and some even do it better. Every year our computers and manufacturing systems get more and more advanced, and rises the question: Will we create an AI smart enough to become self aware, what will happen? A good answer to this question can be found in the story “Who can Replace Man?” by Brian Aldiss.
There are a few examples of some crazy AI projects that were successful. Examples include an AI called Nautilus a “robot prophet”, it was fed newspaper articles starting from the year 1945, by basing its search on the location and nature of the publication. Given information about past events, the computer was was tasked with coming up with suggestions on what could happen in the supposed future. It was even able to give helpful clues in locating Osama Bin Laden. Another AI project example was from Google described as “a self-learning computer with a neural network simulation system”. This robot was made to examine contents of the Internet that it was given without any restrictions. The powerful super intelligence was simply allowed to explore the entire human history and experience. And what is comical about the whole project was that It began browsing though images of kittens, It choose kittens over everything else. Google discovered that we all use the Internet the same way, human beings or high-tech digital intelligence. A little later, Google has discovered that the computer had even developed its own idea of what a kitten should look like by independently generating the image with an analogue to our cerebral cortex and based on a review of photographs seeing earlier. Professor Roland Arkin from the School of interactive computing at the University of Georgia did 20 hide-and-seek experiments in which scientists taught a group of robots with cameras, to be deceptive and cheat. This strategy was based on the behavior of animals such as birds and squirrels. The experiment used two separate robots. The first robot would hide, and the second robot had sought out where the first robot was hiding. Both robots had
Being humans, our brains and bodies have biological limits. Our neurons send and receive signals about 200 times per second while silicon transistors do the same at about 2 billion times per second. While the human brains processing power is still higher than that of a supercomputer, the difference will quickly be overcome. If the human intellectual power can be simulated in an AI, it will have the advantages of having human intelligence as well as the processing power and capabilities of a machine. Their machine minds could solve complex human challenges in areas such as chemistry, engineering, medicine, economics, politics, and more. Issues that are challenging to the human mind could be worked out in a matter of seconds because “complex, detailed, mathematically accurate simulations could be the default thought mode for artificial intelligences” (Anissimov). Since the cores of AIs are just machines, they will only know how to process information based on algorithms and in systematic manners. As mentioned earlier, since the processors of machines will
Defining Artificial Intelligence (A.I). Artificial Intelligence is the study and design of intelligence agents (Science Daily). Artificial Intelligence should be something helpful to us and not be something that can go against us. In an Article Elon Musk says that there are 3 rules for A.I and what should be done. A.I shouldn’t be for cyberbullying and tell people to do certain things that are not supposed to be done. Also, it shouldn’t give out personal information of whoever the provider is. With having these A.I robots they will know so much information and probably secret information that maybe the government doesn’t want out. Elon Musk states “A.I should not be weaponized, and any A.I must have an impregnable off switch” (The New York Times). He’s right what if something were to happen and they can’t shut them off and what if they have so much of everybody’s personal information that gets released.
It is only a matter of time till a supercomputer capable of more calculation than our brain is produced. Then the next challenge would be to simulate the human intelligence. The human brain executes processes in a method quite different from today's computers.
On his essay “Can machines think?” Alan Turing, a great mathematician, and creator of the Turing Test presents us with the initial concept of what is now considered artificial intelligence. He states that eventually, as time progresses, machines will be able to think like humans. But, can a machine really think like a human? Can a machine even think on its own, or it is just based on human science and engineering to make computer systems perform tasks that require intelligence when done by humans?
Jastrow says computers have improved from basic math calculations to mastering the art of imitations and will eventually rise as an emergent form of life. A major default that computers do lack are the emotions that humans possess, but still are capable of outsmarting when motivated and practiced to do so. Jastrow compares human brains to computer databases and says that unlike humans, computers can obtain and process mass amount of information at once. He also says that human brains have limited growing and improving left to do, while databases are going to improve tenfold every eight years. Computers and humans will eventually pair up in order to work in multiple categories of life; computers
People have had this fascination with technology long before there were any texts to write down history. While the technology that humans had a few thousand years ago were not as advanced as today, they were still toying with the idea of creating machines that would have the capability to make similar rational decisions that we do. As we are entering further into the technological age, it is becoming less of a far fetch idea and more of a possibility that artificial intelligence will reach the same capacity for thought that we have. Numerous scientists and scholars have disputed over whether or not if/when artificial intelligence gets to the point where their thought process is on par with a person, that they will be afforded the same
It won’t be long until computers think faster than human’s brains do... in fact, we are already at that point. Artificial Intelligence exists, and it is getting smarter and smarter incredibly fast. As many people focus on how well technology can think, few people are concentrating on how well humans are thinking (or rather, how they aren’t thinking as well as they used to). We have become inseparable from our computers and, as time goes on, we are relying on them for more and more of our daily cognitive functions such as: the calculator, alarms, and calendars. According to Futurism, by Chelsea Pullano, the brain needs exercise. When you don't use it often enough, your abilities deteriorate. On one hand, our ability to locate information is exponentially
Of course, A.I. still not even near as powerful as human brain, the ability to learn and plan.
Just like humans, computers can now learn and adapt, thanks to machine learning, a subfield in AI. With artificial neural networks to mimic those of the human brain, intelligent computers can learn from examples, meaning that no task specific programming is required.