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|  Quantumelfmage | Mar 26, 2006 12:00pm | Given for the moment that AI will eventually be developed, what do you think the public will think of it? Have there been too many scifi movies that portray robots as evil for people to accept AI? Will they find it creepy?
Personally, I think AI will let computers do a lot of jobs that people do.
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| | | DockGreen | Mar 26, 2006 2:16pm | well, I already like the predictive text function on my mobile phone. very handy.
But I hate predictive correcting of spelling "mistakes" when I type a word document.
(I know these are not very advanced sounding, but still AI) |
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|  mergandalf2 | Mar 27, 2006 12:03pm | "AI will let computers do a lot of jobs that people do"
Was this not the cry of pre-computer times? Yet computers have actually created more jobs for humans.
(I think????)
I personally do not fear AI. I have gotten used to the predictive typing functions of Open Office. Never thougt of it as AI though.
Is it really AI when it has just stored your previously typed words and guesses after three letters what you want to say?
It does not evaluate the context to make its gusses more accurate. That to me would be getting closer to AI.
I don't know maybe we won't recognize AI until it has sneaked up and bit us in the butt. LOL |
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| | | DockGreen | Mar 27, 2006 1:55pm | yes, predictive text is one thing that AI can do.
after all, part of what we do when we are reading and using words is to guess what the rest of the word/phrase will be. so a machine that can do this is using a (small) aspect of Intelligence. If you wanted it to be fancier you could improve the system/machine/thing/whatever so that it could use context.
An artificial intelligence that could copy us would be a much more advanced AI, but they are both points on the scale.
Another example of AI is technology that can analyse and recognise images from a moving video feed. This could be used for recognising anything from faces to aircraft. (and is already being used for this? think so).
Or tournaments of little cute robots that can work in teams and play football.
And, maybe one day, if we met some aliens they might have some intelligent behaviour and abilities that are completely alien ('cuse the pun) to us humans. Which could also be copied and modelled, maybe.
oh, and speech recognition software. forgot that one, and it's been being used for years now (although the early versions worked only if...you...spoke...very...slowly). |
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Sponsor |  Nexus76 | Mar 27, 2006 5:59pm | | 4. I haven't tried out any speech recognition apps for a long time - the last time I tried out one I remember thinking "hmmm...we're not really there yet are we"...lol..such things have probably come a long way since then :) One point about speech recognition that has always bothered me (here I'm talking about speech->action interpretation - not speech->text interpretation)...is that its "relatively" easy to make software that can handle a limited vocabulary - an have a user adapt to it but much harder to make one that can properly adapt to human speech patterns - If I have to sit there saying "Start...OpenOffice...File...New...etc..etc" I'd be better off doing it with a mouse :) |
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| | Quantumelfmage | Mar 27, 2006 6:59pm | I'm not sure text prediction is really AI. It doesn't learn or do much independant processing.
Speech recognition - I think Windows Vista is due to ship with more advanced software in that regard. Maybe enough to make me want to buy it...
But software like that could make keyboards and mice nearly obsolete. Just speaking instead of typing would make it much easier to write - a lot more things would be written down by a lot more people.
3: I disagree. The last generation of computers and software were just complicated tools, but AI promises to be smarter than we are. It could almost make *us* its tools. I mean, people running around doing what a massively connected AI wants them to do. If computers become good at making decisions, people _will_ start to rely on them to decide important things. And if a lot of computers are networked, it would almost be like one big AI deciding what we should do. |
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|  Mikecimerian | Jun 8, 2006 8:52am | It seems many take for granted that AI will be a direct creation; the result of some project. More plausibly it will be an emergence from massively distributed processing and interactivity with the human domain.
Once phenomenology starts showing non-determinism in every time frame reference then we may assume that we will be in intelligence with, for lack of a better term, AI.
As far as intelligence is concerned, substrate is just an attribute and a distraction from an information based definition of intelligence.
As individuals, we didn't bootstrap ourselves to the personality level. We may assume it will be the same for non carbon based intelligence.
Before "AI" becomes a free agent if it ever gets to be, it will remain imbricated with the human domain for purpose, input, validation, definition and resolution. The human domain in return will be redefined in reciprocity in a context of mutual requirements for information and processes associated with it to make it usable. |
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