Why Artificial Intelligence Cannot Function.

[buttonpresser4815]

I picked this up while i was reading Prey.

Artificial Intelligence is basically robots. People in the 50s imagined that robots would be able to take place of humans in work. They can be programmed to do one simple task, that is because they have a code written for that. Now imagine robots made to function as humans. There would have to be a code written up for eveyr single situation that could possibly ever occur, and if one did that they did not understand, the entire code would have to be rewritten.

Artificial Life, however, is completely different. They are programmed similar to humans. They are able to think, and remember. They can remember a situation unknown to them, and then the next time it happens, they can be prepared for it. We are like this. So, in order for robots to ever function correctly, they must be programmed in the essence of artifial life.

WHy did i post this? I am not sure.

[Jarlaxle]

I can answer that: Because its interesting, and your right artificial intelligence seems rather impossible if it's only pure machine, but if its cybernetic, that could be a different story. A true AI should be able to think like an organism but still contain unnatural parts: The body can be mechanical but the mind has to be parcially organnic I think. When you think about it cloning could also be considered a way of creating an AI: it's not a natural prossess so it is artificial.

[buttonpresser4815]

Yes cybertronic things still have a mind, yet only some of them have been replaced with metal, so they can still think correctly.

I guess you are right about cloning.

[Jarlaxle]

And I don't see why people are so opposed to it: I wouldn't want a copy of me walking around but you could at least clone organs for medical applications. The idea of artificial life forms in general might be a bit controversial.

[Raistlin Majere]

To comment on the cloning part, I bring the scope again to the ignorance of the modern person. They assume that cloning means that you have an exact duplicate of a person walking around, when in fact that would not be the best use for cloning at all. The primary goal for the technology is for medical uses, virtually eliminating the need for organ donors or perhaps later, blood donors.
As for the controversy of artificial life, the human mind is incredibly complicated, and the ability to think and reason new things is probably something that we couldn't hope to replicate, much less integrate it into a machine. I doubt the issue will come up for a while, at this rate.

[buttonpresser4815]

Yes the human preception of cloning is literally putting a person into a copying machine and then having that same person walk around, when it is entirely different in reality.

[Jarlaxle]

It would never work like that unless that clone expirienced exactly what you had, but other wise, it would be a completely different person. Only the appearance would look the same for a while but over time you may never suspect that one was a clone.

[buttonpresser4815]

Yes they would probably remember some parts of your life, based on the theory of Genetic Memory

Yet they would have to experience a full life, as in be cloned from something in your body, and statr out an infant and mature into an adult.

[Jarlaxle]

Even with that theory applied the clone would still be different later.