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Re:Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of... by patmcc on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @02:20PM (#8924986)
If we had that, I suspect lots of people would say "ah, well, that's just a clever bit of programming - it's not really thinking/feeling/alive/conscious/whatever, so I'd hardly call that good AI".

Also I'd bet the body helps - if you had a 'cloud' (not android) version of Data, people would be even harder to convince.

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Re:Why can’t the world’s greatest minds solve the mystery of... by bduerst on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @03:25PM (#8925494)
I've had those same discussions.

The entertainment industry has set a pretty strange standard for A.I. with the general public. What A.I. will eventually become will probably be wildly different than a limited personification like Data in Star Trek.

The first automobiles looked like horse-drawn carriages, so maybe it's not right to fault people for expecting A.I. to look like humans.

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