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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RE[2]: AI already have emotions
by Tias on Sat 26th Sep 2009 22:33
in reply to "RE: AI already have emotions"
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Of course our human "baggage" play a role, but I figure - if an emotion does it's job well, does it really matter if its a robot or a human who feels it?
Many intelligent creatures have emotions, and they help the creature to act on a small dataset, without having to analyse everything. This is exactly what emotions do really well: they help creatures make decisions when they have insufficient data to make a calculated decision. For example, if a deer feels fear, he will run - and this will probably maximize his chance of survival, even if the emotion sometimes is irrational.
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2005-07-08
I think you are talking about not much more than simple programmed toy emotions only. It is still very different from human emotions and intelligence. Humans have real human consciousness, human biology, they have human history, cultures, languages, traditions, values, morality etc. that programmed machines (always programmed by humans and not working without them, by the way) do not have.
Human intelligence is not just calculation, emotions are not just primitive causal reactions. You cannot separate human intelligence or emotions from the whole human experience that contains all the aspects of the human life.
Edited 2009-09-24 16:27 UTC