How far has Artificial Intelligence progressed? What would be considered cutting edge right now?
Sunday, December 11th, 2011 at
8:11 am
Question by The Boogy Man: How far has Artificial Intelligence progressed? What would be considered cutting edge right now?
AIs that I have seen tend to act intelligent rather than truly understand. They can mimic language by following patterns created by smart programmers rather than ‘learning’ the language. There is a group of thought that says we should strive to first make an AI that evolves like a baby and train it into adulthood. What has been the biggest road block so far?
What do you think? Answer below!
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The biggest roadblock for that kind of program would be making the computer “learn” which is crazy difficult to program. It sounds simple when you say “train a computer like a child” but to make a computer even think as “advanced” as a child is near impossible. Believe it or not, the ability for our species to learn is incredibly complex and borders on the impossible to program.
Among other things, a baby has more “RAM” when it’s born then any computer ever contemplated. And human memory locations are multi-associative. IOW, while a computer cell can be on or off (those are the only 2 choices), a human brain cell can be off, just a trifle on, somewhat on, etc. It can have an almost infinite number of states – some of which cause some synapses to fire, some of which cause other synapses to fire. Computer memory cells are read out one at a time – they can’t directly influence other cells.
What this means is that 1K of human brain cells would need femtobytes (or more) of computer memory cells to emulate it. And human brains have femtobytes of cells, so the amount of RAM to produce a human-like computer “brain” would probably approach the number manufactured so far. (Which would be totally unrealistic – the delays in a network like that would make it “think” slower than a tree.).
We may be able to get close to useful AI (not true understanding, but something that can follow patterns fast enough to produce the same result) with quantum computers. But it’ll be at least a few decades before you can get one at Best Buy.