AI... Could it exist?

[Davo]

I think not.

I am a fan of the thought of AI and fictional works like terminators and Agents but i believe you can not create a program to have ambitions, drive or goals. Anything the program felt would be, you guessed it, programmed.

Even if it were to exist, it is programmed to make a choice reguardless. Why would a terminator want to stand still or sit down?

Humans make machines everyday that do specific tasks we design them for. Would these be considered AI?
Is it AI that tells your AC to come on when it is too hot? Is it AI that tells a terminator to kill all humans on sight?

What do you think?

[CamBen]

It's honestly a difficult question, and impossible to answer, because we would never know if it was true AI or not. We would just assume that it was programmed to react that way to certain stimuli.

[Sherater]

I have a warm feeling when you enter the roundabout here.



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[ThrowSomething]

Our brains are hardwired with a basic set of rules, i.e. "instinct". Years of evolving commands a refinement process that prepares a newborn brain to accept the stimuli we perceive as 'reality'.
Our 5 basic senses shape the reality we see, hear, taste, smell, & touch, and all are merely electrical signals.
This newborn's brain would not be able to tell the difference if it were being kept alive in a glass container, being fed those signals externally, or actually in a human body.
Other stimuli could also be artificially reproduced like the sense of balance, direction, acceleration, etc.
The key to AI seems to point towards having that initial construct, complete with its basic set of instincts.
Evolution would shape the rest.

[Darhagonable]

this is a huge step for AI.