Will we ever create A.I?

[Deleted]

I don't think we can re create "human" but I'm confident we could create something really close. A machine which could learn from experience and mistakes and have some random/not logical behaviours. But I doubt the fact that sometimes we make decisions that defy logic could be called "random behaviour", so in the end these AI would stay AI.

[Zethras]

By the time we Create AI the reapers will come and kill us all

At least humanity will be preserved for all eternity in an immortal machine body, we will no longer be capable of destroying ourselves.

[Gheld]

I'm saying AI is like GE-humans. Both are techs we will reach given enough time "undisturbed" by the fall of man.

Ah. Soz brah, totes misread you.

Yeah, it will be pretty interesting to see what we, and our technology will look like in 50, 100, 200 years, etc.

[Deleted]

yes we will and someone will find a way to make porn out of it

[Adam Jensen]

But the real question is, does this unit have a soul? Does a truly intelligent robot (having the same intellectual/emotional capabilities as a human) deserve the rights we afford other humans?

[Aeluron Lightsong]

But the real question is, does this unit have a soul? Does a truly intelligent robot (having the same intellectual/emotional capabilities as a human) deserve the rights we afford other humans?

....The robotic Civil Right movement!

[Zethras]

But the real question is, does this unit have a soul? Does a truly intelligent robot (having the same intellectual/emotional capabilities as a human) deserve the rights we afford other humans?

[Vargur]

We're going to need some 10th generation quantum CPU's to create self-aware, self-learning, proper non-scripted AI.

[Argarock]

So I just watched Her and it gave me a deep thought. Will man ever create an artificial consciousness or is it impossible. Anyone have any ideas?

Well, first you have to Define, AI and Consciousness

Seriously, science has a really hard time figuring out exactly what consciousness is! we've already made tons of AI stuff. but the ai is really basic and usually only able to complete one or 2 simple tasks.

[Zethras]

We're going to need some 10th generation quantum CPU's to create self-aware, self-learning, proper non-scripted AI.

I feel like both of these are relevant:

[Unionoob]

But the real question is, does this unit have a soul? Does a truly intelligent robot (having the same intellectual/emotional capabilities as a human) deserve the rights we afford other humans?

As funny as it sounds for some. If he will be true intelligent then he or they might ask with what they are worse then us. Because they most likely would see us same as them. Only made with different parts. They made from metal, plastic but us made from self replicating biological parts. And we really gotta understand that anything with intelligence might act like we do.

[Tradewind]

the ai is really basic and usually only able to complete one or 2 simple tasks.

No worse than Psych majors!

[Jinali]

I feel like both of these are relevant:

Where is that from?

[Zethras]

Where is that from?

Mass Effect. Her name is EDI, look her up, she's got an interesting backstory.

[Durandro]

And no, I hope we never do.

Actually, AI's have existed for over a decade already. Relatively basic ones, but AI's none the less.

What we've yet to create is an artificial sentience with intellect on the same level or higher as a human being. And it'll be done within the next two decades, no question about it.

[Durandro]

Mass Effect. Her name is EDI, look her up, she's got an interesting backstory.

Indeed. If logs are to be believed, 'she' started off as an advanced VI (Virtual Intelligence) that was designed to run a training simulation camp. It went rogue when a glitch in its programming apparently caused it to be unable to end the simulation, and to turn all the training mechs lethal. Later its revealed it had actually become self aware (reason unknown, possibly tampering) and paniced, attacking everyone who came close and then calling for help at the moment of 'death'. Later its programming is salvaged and upgraded using advanced alien technology, and it is heavily shackled in its programming to obey commands and is also locked out of key systems on the ship its installed on. It later asks to be unshackled during an attack, as it works out the only way the ship will survive is it if takes direct control (most of the crew are busy being killed at the time). And it keeps its word and saves the ship, and makes no efforts to escape or kill anyone else - seemingly having learned enough about organics to begin attempting to emulate them more, and even starts being referred to as 'she' by many crewmembers. Later on she hacks a cybernetic body of an enemy infiltrator (initially attempting to download encripted data) and seizes control of its functions, and begins using the body as a 'front' for her intellect in order to interact better with the crew. Eventually she even begins to confess having emotional reactions to events, showing sinces of concern, amusment, bemusment and even outright terror before eventually coming to the conclusion that life is worth preserving at any cost to her own wellbeing.

Interesting story. Which was somewhat soiled by the fact her new body looks... Well, like that.

[Manhands]

Stand-up comedian robots. WTB.

[Zethras]

Indeed. If logs are to be believed, 'she' started off as an advanced VI (Virtual Intelligence) that was designed to run a training simulation camp. It went rogue when a glitch in its programming apparently caused it to be unable to end the simulation, and to turn all the training mechs lethal. Later its revealed it had actually become self aware (reason unknown, possibly tampering) and paniced, attacking everyone who came close and then calling for help at the moment of 'death'. Later its programming is salvaged and upgraded using advanced alien technology, and it is heavily shackled in its programming to obey commands and is also locked out of key systems on the ship its installed on. It later asks to be unshackled during an attack, as it works out the only way the ship will survive is it if takes direct control (most of the crew are busy being killed at the time). And it keeps its word and saves the ship, and makes no efforts to escape or kill anyone else - seemingly having learned enough about organics to begin attempting to emulate them more, and even starts being referred to as 'she' by many crewmembers. Later on she hacks a cybernetic body of an enemy infiltrator (initially attempting to download encripted data) and seizes control of its functions, and begins using the body as a 'front' for her intellect in order to interact better with the crew. Eventually she even begins to confess having emotional reactions to events, showing sinces of concern, amusment, bemusment and even outright terror before eventually coming to the conclusion that life is worth preserving at any cost to her own wellbeing.

Interesting story. Which was somewhat soiled by the fact her new body looks... Well, like that.

What's wrong with looking like a sex-bot?

[Revi]

I think so, in a way. It won't become anything like a human though, it wont make decisions based on ever-changing emotional states, it wont be "inspired" or spontaneously get ideas, it's actions/thoughts wont be motivated by dreams, lust, fears or agendas. It will just be a machine programmed with an incredibly complex system of rules, using the logic that it's been programmed with or "learned".

[zoefschildpad]

I've been studying computer science for years now and I am no longer sure we are actually intelligent. I suppose it's a matter of definitions. We appear to have qualities that computers don't. We are apparently creative, we have emotions and we appear to have free will and sentience. However, if we can build a computer system that is creative, expresses emotions that believes it has free will and sentience too, did we create an artificial intelligence? or did we show that we are simply machines as well?

And on the subject of free will, you are reading this now and because of it neurons in your brain are firing in an attempt to comprehend and you will form a decision as to whether or not you will read the next sentence. Since apparently you decided that you will, ponder this: neurons in your brain were triggering other neurons which eventually led to this decision. If we can make a computer program capable of simulating those biological processes, doesn't that mean that we could predict every choice? and if we can predict every choice, doesn't that mean there was never a choice to begin with?