Linked by Jitesh Dundas on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 08:00 UTC
Can computers win the Turing Test? Imagine a day when a machine will say, "Move over Turing! You can no longer consider machines to be less smart than humans! After all, we can think too. We do all the thinking and processing and you take all the credit, just because you are our creator! ". That would be an awkward and exciting situation. To be honest, there is a valid argument here in this imaginary conversation. As naive as it may sound for now, let me assure you that such a scenario is not far away. Applications are becoming more and more logic-oriented and increasingly intelligent.
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I remember seeing a presentation (can't remember by whom) who basically says that we have emotion allow us to act when we don't have enough information.
We can rarely make a perfectly objective rational calculated choice. We have some information. But in general, we just need to do something.
You could spend eternity deciding where and what to eat for dinner. At the end of the day, you need emotion to just make that decision.
I could certainly imagine that we could get a computer to act human in time. I don't think we're close at all, but we could get there.
The problem I think will be that as we discover how to program the computer to act human, the more we'll discover just programmable humans are. Maybe that all our emotions, all our decisions can be represented in a computer with some random weightings