Artificial Inteligence

[SpidSh@d]

You know..Good question. But I would presume that the artificial would use a language far more advanced and efficient than we could comprehend. For we as humans, we use our language(s) for the purpose of communication but, it really depends on the area. I.E...People from the U.S. talk faster than most people in the world because we want things fast and efficiently but, people in...Austrailia talk slower than most (this is just an in-acuarate example) becausit's hot and it takes alot of energy to move/speak. A.I would have a language that suits them and their needs. "Phew" I hope you understand what I mean, I can be a bit abstract sometimes.

You know..Good question. But I would presume that the artificial would use a language far more advanced and efficient than we could comprehend. For we as humans, we use our language(s) for the purpose of communication but, it really depends on the area. I.E...People from the U.S. talk faster than most people in the world because we want things fast and efficiently but, people in...Austrailia talk slower than most (this is just an in-acuarate example) becausit's hot and it takes alot of energy to move/speak. A.I would have a language that suits them and their needs. "Phew" I hope you understand what I mean, I can be a bit abstract sometimes.

[Figo]

Well, I'll try to answer the question in the beginnning of the Thread:

O worked with LPA Prolog this year around A.I. and the truth is that I was very suprised, a Logical programming language with backtracking. I was able to do small programs able do answer questions based on a knowledge base given by the user. It could understand (not really understand them of course) my sentences and correct them. Then a simple game with meta-programming (the language defines itself), of course with lots of limitations. The next step was a program do help you make decisions based in factors of confidence, for example, my program should be abel to tell you with some certainty if I should invest on certain stock or not (based on variables that I would give to it).
Well, we can't call it real A.I. but I think we're getting there. The games were mentioned in this thread, it's the beginning of A.I. I remember to play some games that the computer would learn your skills and would adapt to them.

[Pecosian]

I agree acidreign, we are programmed with the most basic instincts to survive, like to eat when we're hungry, sleep when we're tired, and avoid things that cause us pain. These are some basic rules that don't seem all that hard to put into a logical form a computer could understand. As far as seeing people smiling as a child, we know it means they're happy based on the fact that we do the same thing when we're happy. If we frowned when we were happy we wouldn't know the difference really, that's something learned from a bit of experience combined with the thought that you do the same thing when you're happy, etc...

I suppose there's a need for emotions and pleasure though, it's a tool to help learn, without pleasure/pain we would have no incentive to do certain things, same with emotions, we feel bad when we're let down or someone yells at us so we learn from it, if we don't like feeling that way we do something to change it. I think I was wrong earlier, in order to learn intelligently we need some sort of feedback aside from the external world to make us want to do one thing and not another. Without some sort of emotions or pain/pleasure system we would have to base all our decisions on things we've been told, eliminating the real ability to decide for ourselves.

On a side note for anyone who wants to argue if we have free will, while without feelings as such we'd be confined to believing whatever we were told in most cases, is it possible that emotions cause the illusion of having a choice when in fact we were bound to make that decision regardless? Just a thought.

[antionline_76]

I wrote a paper on A.I. in uni.

[Hunt_guy]

Hii guys'
I have Read all ur post and also i am very much interseted in AI bur i call this as NI natural intellegence coz a machine with so much complex input output system and database capablities is a machine indeep coz i cana't think of its own it we r to make a thinking machine we should make the think for itself and asks the ? to itself only and tries to find the loghival asnwer either by the database or some other logic
there the parts needed for a NI machne is
1. Highly fexible Input Output System whcih can interact not only with the vitrual world but also with the real world
2. Higlhly fexible database like the nurons of out brain which can change the data and append as and when and where needed
3. A Logic to Interpret the data stored into some logical anwer's either in visual for or in text form, i think the visual for will be much better coz by this we can make out machine visualize the concepts and answer's the reason is same a new born child cannot talk he can only viualize and put the ? on himself and seeks the answer from himslef only
4. A logic so that our machine can think by itself and aks the ? from itself only
there for 1+2+3+4= A NI MACHINE

[steve.milner]

In my opinion the answer to this question is not to use a programming language.

I would use neural networks, although to mimic human levels of intelligence they would be huge.

I would try and design aggreagations of neworks to mimic the areas of the brain we know perfom specific functions which when aggregated together would create the AI.

Several neural networks could form a visual processing centre:
Colour network
B& White network
Vertical Line Network
Horiz. Line Network
Repeating Pattern Network
Vertical Movement network
etc.
etc.

As you can see these networks would require a huge amount of resource to build each component, train the components, connect them together and train the whole.

Of course to test & train the visual processing network aggregation it would need to be connected to a suitably trained aggregation performing visual memory etc., etc..

Not a small task.

Now to get back to the question - You could write a neural network simulator in any language you want but you need one massive Beowolf cluster to run it all on.

But there may be a better solution:

Using a mixture of neural networking and a variation of genetic algorithms so that each neural netork has selection pressures for its survival to the next generation (an also selection pressures on agregations) it may be possible to evolve the AI by simulating a challenging environment for your developing AI.

And then the Terminator scenario starts.

Anyone remeber a sci-fi book called the Two Faces of Tommorrow about training an AI on a space station?

[x acidreign x]

I personally think not only that AI is possible, I think it exists already. The internet. It is massive, it "knows" just about everything about us. the internet is evolving, constantly bending and shaping itself to our immediate needs. I think that is, in a sense, intelligence.

[mark_boyle2002]

I will use my l33t code to write a super virus to gather information and eventually become self aware.

Does anyone have any spare floppy disks because I'm going to use these as brain cells. LOL

[l0stcluster]

MIT got a nice AI lab. I got buddy who used to study in there. Pretty nice. Life forms + computer generated structures to make a program fro simulating it.

[IKnowNot]

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mark_boyle2002

I've got a bunch of 5 1/4 disks around