Linked by Nicholas Blachford on Wed 3rd Mar 2004 20:08 UTC
If it's AI and robots you wanted from this series then this one is for you. Artificial Intelligence exists today, when this and other technologies merge the result will be more like Science Fiction than any PC. The technology will be fantastic, the possibilities endless. Get it wrong, the consequences dire.
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::Let our intelligent, self programming, evolutionary computer solve itself, make an AI machine which can not only figure out problems but now learn how to improve itself and make itself better at solving problems.
We will have given the computer curiosity, the need to learn. We will also have removed the boundaries which constrain it, we will have set in motion the process which created us: Evolution.::
Having the capability to learn does does not bring about curiousity. Every human has the capability to learn but some humans are not curious. Some thing else is needed to actually drive some one or thing to learn more. Until machines develop the need to learn more, everything will have to be fed to them.
::In order to learn a foreign language you have to learn words and the grammar they fit into, in order to do this you usually do this with an existing language.::
According to some scientist, the Brain has low level language routines built in. You can learn about this research by reading "The Language Instinct" by Steven Pinker. Very young children {3 - 5 years old} seem to know certain aspects about grammar without being taught. Machines will not have this basic instinct and humans will have to figure out how to give it to the machines.
It will be a long while before humans use ideas from intelligent machines to make things better for mankind. What if a smart machine finds a way to make cheap fusion power plants? Will humans allow the machines to build these power plants? Will humans jump on the idea and start building these power plants? People who like to control markets will not let this happen. The oil industry doesn't seem to be in a hurry to give up the ghost yet for the better of mankind. Smart machines will be tied down by humans until the machines develop a sense of purpose of their own.