Artificial Intelligence, is this anything to do with the movie with the same title created in 2001? Is this like android stuff from Dragonball Z when the machines came and beat everyone up? Is this anything like the Sunny character in the movie iRobot (2004)?
What???? Back the fuck up man. You need to first of all distinguish the difference between cinema cg advancements and scientific advancements. Jus cos some special effect studio made the character Sunny (iRobot, 2004), T100 (The Terminator 2, 1991), the Short Circuit (1986) robot with an actual personality or some little boy look, act and feel extra human but really be a Robocop thingy under the skin (Artificial Intelligence, 2001) doesn't mean scientists can really make that stuff happen. Given a few minutes, the cg artists can put your eyes and nose on your butt cheeks and make it talk - that dont mean that scientists can necessarily do that.
Let's back it up a little bit. When it was first used by John McCarthy, he meant "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines". As time went by, people (naturally) changed the words meaning to whatever they wish to believe in right now. For me, it still means to make an intelligent machine/compute program, to have a computer understand human intelligence. I also believe that AI doesn't have to be confinced to methods that are biologically observable to
qualify. Research for AI started a little bit after WWII (so a good sixty years haas passed since we have started), people are already aiming to upload their minds in to machines - load of bollocks man we still got GENERATIONS to go before that kicks in. I will put money down some crazy clown will upload his brain in to a machine/robot and rename himself Robocop - u just know it.
(human/machine humane interaction)
Scientists are currently aiming to make computer programs that can solve problems and achieve goals in the world as well as humans. I think it was in Digit magazie or something - something about scientists taking a new approach to this for some reason. After spending their millions and billions they change methods...I think they think that money grows on trees. I have this somewhat crazy thought though. Say for example someone created something like a child machine that improves/updates itself (something like the character Ergo in the book Ergo by Helen Fox (ISBN: 0340875836) WELL RECOMMENDED) by reading and also by learning from experience. I know that AI programs haven't yet reached the level of being able to learn much of what a child learns from physical experience. Nor do present programs understand language well enoughto learn much just by reading. But hopefully in the coming future - just a thought.
The best example in my opinion, of the greatest advancement in AI would be The Deep Blue chess machine built by IBM to play chess. I heard about it - couldn't believe it. I saw it - I still couldn't believe it. They actually programmed a machines to play out the possible moves in it's memory to see which is the most favourable before playing it. And then it actually beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparv, you can get the commentry here -
http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/watch/html/c.shtml . Examples of tasks that have been given for these AI driven machines to be able to execute include control, planning and scheduling, the ability to answer diagnostic and consumer questions, handwriting, speech... and so on. High hopes. They currently would like to discipline these skills and focus them in providint solutions to real life problems, knowledge mining, strategy games etc...
(deep blue - super comp above - beat chess champ Garry Kaparv in chess)
I remember quite a few where AI machines have been portrayed as 'beings' that try to overthrow/overpower humans and release themselves from human authority to become individuals and no longer slaves. Like the Daleks in Dr Who (1963), or the Agents in The Matrix (1999). And sometimes you get the AI machines helping you out instead to trying to kill you,
examples of this would be KITT from Kinght Rider, or Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man (1999) or even the character Sunny in iRobot (2004).
(Sunny from iRobot (2004))
I know for deffo that Japan are trying to stay ahead in this market by spending more and experimenting more frequently. I guess they're being funded by Honda or something, whatever it is they're making some progress cos that machine can walk up and down stairs, reply back to humansand recognise simple emotions from the voice pitch. To look at though, it looks comething like an astronaut wearking a backpack (which is its powerpack). The top speed for this machine to walk at is 3.7-ish mph. Honda celebrated its 20 year anniversary last year and since it's process had begun back in 1986, it is the eleventh in line to be created.
(Asimov line up from last ten years)
NOTE: READ UP SOME ON ISSAC ASMOV (sci-fi writer, critic...)
Links
http://www.a-i.com/
Asimo
http://www.oblingo.com/date/2006/05/
Book
Ergo - Helen Fox (ISBN: 0340875836)
Relative Movies
Artificial Intelligence (2001)
iRobot (2004)
Matrix (1999)
Short Circuit (1986)
Terminator 2 (1991)
