How far can 'Terminator Robots' be off reality? http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1218/sony_06.wmv Amazing little chaps, I want one.
bear in mind that civilian technology is usually about 10yrs behind military technology you have 15 seconds to comply...... you have 10 seconds to comply.....
It's serious shit innit. We are a long way off having AI (self controlling) robots like that but I can see the US having call centres full of operators controlling an army of those bots for 'peace keeping' duties. It'll be like playing couter strike.
impressive stuff!! self controlling maybe, but i doubt a robot could ever produce an original idea, like write a poem of the top of its head without prior programming. THAT would be impressive
When we write a poem off " the top of our head", the idea does just come from assembled and interpreted inputs to our brains, so the only difference from a computer's reasoning is in a) complexity - humans are much more complex aka intelligent thinkers at the moment, and b) in that human thought uses chaotic processes to introduce unpredictability, ie they are not discrete state machines (practically speaking), they are analogue. So its more than possible that you will be impressed by such feats within your lifetime. Remember in 1950, the first computer that could add faster than human thought was invented; this was previously widely considered impossible to achieve. It was the size of a warehouse, and ran at 96 hz i think.
all true but computer "intelligence" is totally different from human intelligence. Computers aren't "intelligent" at all, they're just very very fast but incapable of original thought, lateral thinking, reasoning etc. Far as I know there is no computer on earth that does anything more than simply follow coded instructions, so true machine intelligence is still a way off yet .... far as I know
What I was trying to say, was that Humans are not "intelligent" in the sense that they are original, they just intruduce a radom element into processing (neural net computing), possible combined with a quantum mechanism, to allow ideas to evolve like a species. That is to say, they are still mechanical in nature and there is no fundamental reason stopping machines from achieving or surpassing our level of sentience.
