Robo AI
Friday October 28, 2005 - 3:13PM EDT
In some fields, artificial intelligence has already bested humans — with Deep Blue’s 1997 victory over world chess champion Garry Kasparov providing a vivid example.
Surely Deep Blue was progress. But such infintesimal progress and nothing to get scared of computers taking over.
Three years later, computer scientist Bill Joy argued in an influential Wired magazine essay that we would soon face challenges from intelligent machines as well as from other technologies ranging from weapons of mass destruction to self-replicating nanoscale “gray goo.”
Here they negelected to mention that the author they speak of recanted his "gray goo" scenario. I forget the reason why but I think it was because it was silly and ignorant.
I don't understand those who think AI is so close. We can barely get a computer to interact naturally with a person and that is just a small part of being intelligent as a human. To think they will become smarter than us just doesn't make any sense. How can something we create exceed us in intelligence if its intelligence is based on ours. This evolving computer that is so popular in sci-fi has people not thinking straight. For humans to get to be able to create a system like ourselves that seems to be able to evolve would probably be the greatest achievement in the history of mankind. Frankly I don't believe that is going to happen anytime soon. And that "ghost in the machine" nonsense is retarded. I wonder if the people that come up with that have ever actually programmed a computer. Random chunks of code my ass. We have so far to go to make computers intelligent as humans. We can't even figure out what makes us intelligent let alone duplicate it in machine. We might come really close but it may never reach the potential of humans which we don't even know the limits of.