AI

[Darth Biscuit]

What are the chances it happens in our lifetime?

[Mvp2014]

haha I thought this was the sign Allen Iverson to be our QB thread. : (

[Darth Biscuit]

Yes, that sounds like a GREAT plan... let me know how that works out... wrong forum too... :D

[Mvp2014]

You know he went to the same high school as Vick and by all accounts that I heard was far better, too bad he had filthy handles and a jumpshot

[TerriblePizza]

AI as what we think about in science fiction will probably never happen. We have no idea how the brain works, much less know how to replicate it's function.

However, every advanced "artificial intelligences" are used in our modern life. For example, the majority of the trading in the stock market is done by algorithms that interpret, learn, and react to changes in the market and price fluctuations faster than any human possibly could.

Here's a great article about it that was in Wired:

Today’s AI bears little resemblance to its initial conception. The field’s trailblazers in the 1950s and ’60s believed success lay in mimicking the logic-based reasoning that human brains were thought to use. In 1957, the AI crowd confidently predicted that machines would soon be able to replicate all kinds of human mental achievements. But that turned out to be wildly unachievable, in part because we still don’t really understand how the brain works, much less how to re-create it.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_ai_essay_airevolution/

[Darth Biscuit]

Full sentience?

None

Limited reasoning/learning for simple tasks.

Guaranteed.

None at all huh? How about ever? Processing power continues to increase... as does our knowledge and programming abilities, I hink it will eventually occur. No idea when...

[Matt Moore]

2045

[YoungPanthers89]

2014

[Razzy]

Given that things such as war and resource shortage greatly effect advances in technologies, I say it's less than a 2% chance any of us see a singularity event. Frankly, I think the technology is far off.

More likely and much scarier is the possibility of malevolent apocolyptic technology in the future. We are much closer to creating military grade protein based nanobots than a self-realized AI. Frankly, invisible clouds of self-replicating death machines gone rogue is a fate more likely than skynet.

[Darth Biscuit]

Thanks Razzy for that bright look into the future... :lol:

[Tyler Durden]

Full independent thought and decision making processes are something I don't think we'll ever see from technology.

Basically, machines we build are limited by those who build them.

There are so many things about ourselves that we don't know and probably never will, so I don't see how a machine engineered by our hands will ever be able to be fully independent from us.

[fitty76]

Real enough that they have summits for it.

http://www.singularitysummit.com/

[fitty76]

BTW according to T2, Skynet became self-aware on April 19, 2011.

You know that date just passed right? Oh God, were dead!

[Sword]

not sure about non-organic sentience..but I do know some tech-theorists think we will have nanobots regulating our bodies in 25 years..and 100 years from now people will think it wierd that we didn't back up our brainwaves on a server..we shall nevah die!