Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by cryptoz on Friday February 14, 2014 @11:36AM
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It's arriving right now. I can speak in plain English to my smartphone (or any other language really, it knows more human languages than I do), cars drive themselves, the world's billionaires are now focused on rapid AI development, etc. There are so many things different this time around that you shouldn't be so pessimistic. "It's different this time" (it actually is though)!
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Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by CmonDev on Friday February 14, 2014 @12:23PM
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I am optimistic, but there were dolls capable of playing musics back in Medieval Age, I feel like e.g. Siri is one of those things.
Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by appledapple on Friday February 14, 2014 @01:28PM
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The difference to me is that the dolls capable of playing music were made up of a small set of parts compared to 15 million lines of code for Wolfram Alpha. We are way more sophisticated today.
Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by CmonDev on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:01AM
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You chose a bad example. Wolfram Alpha is like 15000 of such dolls. Not an AI in any way though.
Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by benched on Friday February 14, 2014 @01:36PM
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I had legos when I was a kid. The Burj Khalifa is pretty much just like that.
Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by CmonDev on Monday February 17, 2014 @04:00AM
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Pretty much. It's not like it is 3d-printed, robot-assembled or "grown" in a semi-biological way.
Re:The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
by brianberns on Friday February 14, 2014 @02:34PM
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These are indeed improvements, but I don't think they qualify as true AI. Software is still nowhere near being able to pass the Turing Test. We still don't have any idea how the human mind works, or how to emulate one digitally.