RE: The Future IS coming even if it seems to take for ever
My thing that I have been following for some years now is the development of Robots. Robots are coming. Algorithmic robots in cyberspace as well as 3 dimensional ones in the work place and the home. I recently saw a wonderful documentary about a recent experiment using the NAO Robot in hospitals to talk with elderly patients who basically feel lonely as they have are left alone to recover after an operation. Nurses have no time to chat with them and so the patients became depressed. Amazingly they found it astonishingly easy to relate to the NAO robot seeing as a kind if intelligent child. Doctors were amazed to see their spirits lifted so quickly after just 10 minutes of them talking with the Robot. It was quite heart warming to watch. So yeah watch out for the robots. Interesting post.
So I shouldn't give up on my robot butler just yet.
'Algorithmic robots in cyberspace' is this A.I or is there a difference
Hi yes A.I are algorithms of course but Artificial Intelligence is more more of course as I was also referring to Ai that could one day beat the Turing test. Some say that some Ai have apparently already passed this test but I am skeptical about this. For Ai/robotics, like on the film Ai, to have real consciousness as human-beings have I think is a long long way off just yet. Just to prove this, if we take the sense of "smell". Smell does not just enable is to detect food or detect if it is stale or possibly poison, it also has important memory connotations with our past and present. Think about when you smell your grandmother´s apple pie and how that makes you feel. take away the sense of smell and you dramatically reduce our sense of reality. Robots can see very well these days and even have touch sensors. But touch to an android that does not to to procreate as humans do, would have vastly different meaning than it does for us. And smell, why would they that when they do not need to eat. Well perhaps for illegal drug detection at airports. Thus it is not only intelligence level and communications skills that give us consciousness it is also the emotion meaning that we attach to our five senses. Just some thoughts that came to me as I was writing. Good luck with the Ai butler.