DailyDirt: Computers Becoming More Like Us
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The field of artificial intelligence is steadily making progress and developing software that can perform some pretty impressive tasks. Still, most AI projects aren't quite ready to convince everyone that computers can be good at general intelligence. But to some folks, it's only a matter of time before robots are going to take over -- driving cars better than us, beating us at chess/poker/go, stealing all the manufacturing jobs. Here are just a few more examples of artificial intelligence getting smarter.- Algorithms deep inside the secretive Google X lab have been watching millions of YouTube videos -- and have learned to identify cat faces. This feat was accomplished with unsupervised learning -- so no one explicitly programmed anything to look for cat faces. Maybe those computers figured out for themselves that kittens are good for productivity... [url]
- Eugene Goostman is a chatbot that has come very close to passing the Turing Test by fooling a panel of human judges into thinking it was a real boy 29% of time (Passing the Turing Test requires a 30% fooling rate). This chatbot was given the fake personality of a 13yo boy living in Odessa, Ukraine -- so expect next year's competition to include a lot of fake teenagers with strange idiosyncrasies. [url]
- DeeChee the iCub robot is learning how to talk like a human baby by listening to adults speaking and babbling until recognizable words form. DeeChee is a project in the field of embodied cognition -- which asserts that cognitive processes are shaped by the bodies in which they occur. This robot doesn't think like a human baby, but it could help understand how biological brains create language. [url]
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Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, chatbot, embodied cognition, eugene goostman, robots, turing test, unsupervised learning
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embodied cognition
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Ray Kurtzweil anyone
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Osamu Tezuka
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Any intelligence shown by the contestants is immediately interpreted as artificial. Therefore, this isn't a test for artificial intelligence, this is a test for artificial shallowness and ignorance.
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as you've pointed out, it would be worth of not if there was a computer capable of hatred, spite, fear, joy, love, curiosity, abstraction, empathy.. all things computers cannot do, but humans (and animals can).
humans can do tasks but computers can also do, like drive a car, but it is arguable that humans are using intelligence to drive, they are acting more like a computer than a human in most tasks. (like driving).
it's the HUMAN things that humans do that computers will never 'get'..
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you ask the computer "what does love feel like?" it is going to look up some database and provide you with a standard answer, but it will never be able to tell you what love actually feels like, because that is an emotion that requires intelligence.
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the Turing Test requires a 30% fooling rate).
SO if you totally ignored the chat bot, and flipped a coin, you at least would achieve a 50% guess rate..
So to pass the test you have to 'guess' a value (negative result) way less than 50% of the time....
Not much of a test..
If you pick things that humans can easily do, but in doing them are in fact acting like computers is not much of test.
SO computers can drive cars,, so what, humans can act like computesr enough to drive them as well.
But it's going to be a very long time before the computer in your car feels fear or anger when it is cut off on the road..
No matter how well a computer can control a car, it is never going to decide by itself that it feels like a burger, and drive to the shop and buy one.
computers can be smart,, but not intelligent
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did the program call it a cat ? and comment "I like cats!"
it's probably an ANN, particularly good at pattern recognition.
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-Size isn't reliable, you have chihuahua's to Irish wolfhounds and the varying closeness of the shot from the camera throws that out the window anyways.
-Shape isn't reliable, cats have round faces, except when they don't which is just as common.
-Color doesn't help.
-MAYBE the cat eyes, but that isn't reliable as well.
Can anyone come up with a cat description that doesn't also describe another animal?
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This isn't all bad
Cars aside, I don't think allowing robots to replace manufacturing jobs is bad either. I want a future like WALL-E minus the pollution. Think about it: aside from the pollution, WALL-E's future is pretty damn Utopian.
Of course, I also want to eventually be able to upload my mind into a robot chassis and live forever, so if nothing else I want to see advanced AIs because any system capable of running a sufficiently advanced AI should be capable of emulating a human brain with the right modifications.
Seriously though, this isn't all bad news. Some of this is awesome.
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We just have to be careful about how we use the technological marvels we build.
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