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    Do you believe that we'll have A.I. by the year 2020 ? In japan, they already have robots that wait on the elderly

    Steve Wosniak , the business partner of the late  Steve Jobs. said, that we won't have robots with A.I. untill one of them can go in a house that it's never been to before, and make coffee.

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    100 years ago we barely had flight plans for man, 50 years ago a computer filled a whole room, 25 years ago a cellphone was the size of a big brick with a bigger battery, who knows what's going to appear in the next decade or so? 


    Hope I'm around to see it.


    SCOTTISH ROBOT!


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    mycatsmom

    me too. T Y for commenting, Romos.You added to the discussion

    I think I've spoken to some people with (Artificial Intelligence) A.I....why, just today in fact.    lol

    hector5559

    I do not think we have spoke today yet Miss Ducky
    Ducky

    Moderator
    You're right. I guess it was yesterday. :)
    Benthere

    Anyone in mind ?
    Ducky

    Moderator
    Have I spoken with you recently Ben? lol
    Benthere

    I yacked and you quacked !
    Ducky

    Moderator
    That means that we agreed! :)

    I feel elderly people need more human contact! A robot is not what I want for my old years!  Hold me, Pat my back, Say I love you! Don't give me a robot! Thank you!!

    Ducky

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    Good point.

    Steve Wosniak missed the fact that we have had automatic coffee makers long before computers. Artificial intelligence, such a curious term, I have long considered a waste of words because there is nothing artificial about intelligence. We use our intelligence to produce components that respond to electrical signals…..and inter-act according to a well thought-out design to perform a function. Advancing as we have to where we now have computers and robots. We are trying to make a brain that can perform a task without our intervention like HAL in 2001 a Space Oddity. So we eventually make a robot that will go fishing with you and tell you a story on it’s own volition….unlike me since I would rather sit here and type into my computer.    


    MCM A stone displays amazing intelligence that is structural in its form. Our gadgets are toys we made in our effort to emulate the progression of details in intellectual prowess and emulate to utilize the hows and why of Gods exemplary creations in form and meaning as our own. A coffee making drone is an application of toys….We are just ascending a mountain of  tinker toys not prying open the gates of Paradise.   

    mycatsmom

    Robert, I think he meant the robot would have to " think" to go into a strange house,find the kitchen,find the coffee maker, and the filters, and the coffee and the water,etc and figure out how to make the coffee.
    They already made a computer that beat the russians and chinese at chess and checkers in the 90s. So, did it " think" or did it repeat back all the "moves" that was implanted in it.

    Here in the Silicon Valley, there's several private labs conducting A.I. experiments, one that I think is amusing and funny is severa  local scientists thought they were getting close, here's the scenario:


     


    They proposed a logic question:


    You walk into a room, its dark, you flip the light switch and it doesn't work, provide a solution:


    The computer replied:  "return the switch  to off position."  problem solved"  LOL!  Logically the A.I. was correct but it did not reason with the fact that the operator wanted to see light! They were looking for an answer 'Change the lightbulb' but it just could not reason with this so it took the easiest correct answer.


    It'll be awhile.


     

    mycatsmom

    T Y, Vinny, for contributing a well thought out answer to the discussion.Your point makes sense. So, the questions remain....will computers and robots ever " think"? I know one thing....they'll never have a soul.
    Vinny

    Cat, No, computers will never 'think' they can and will always 'compute'. At least this is my opinion at this time with the understanding of technology available to us now. That said, i still have total doubts that computers will ever be any thing else but glorified calculators with reasoning limited to input programming. They will cry and laugh if they are programmed to do so, they may even reach a point where the physical appearance and vocal output will be so humanlike that you may need to look twice. (think star trek's data)The compassionate side of humans will never connect with the binary clicking of microscopic switches and relays of an Android regardless of how 'thoughtful' it may seem. probably no more of an attachment then we have with our dogs and cats (no pun intended). We love our animals but we don't let them make decisions in our life. You can program your pet to do tricks though!! same with computers!! :)

    I surely hope not.  Programming is one thing, but actual intelligence doesn't sound like something that can be manufactured in a lab.   I prefer to think our brains are part of the uniqueness of mankind.  Too many lunatics have played God in the past (Hitler comes to mind), with devastating results.  

    I imagine if with the creating of Robot almost every time, people will no longer do any job, this will now create alot of unemployment  which will now cost danger to the society at large

    mycatsmom

    That's been going on for a long time. The auto industry eliminated a lot of jobs over the years by automation. So did the cement plant in Alpena Mich. It looks like a ghost town,around there , on the outside, b/c it's all automated.


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