Will machines ever surpass Humans??

[bassnut]

Honda's ASIMO isn't as cute or agile as the robot dog but he does learn and make certain rudimentary judgments.

YouTube - ASIMOs new artificial intelligence. (ASIMO is learning!)


YouTube - ASIMO avoids moving obstacles

...and he runs.

YouTube - The New ASIMO Running

 

[m401 user]

every single idea arised in oldskool sci-fi becoming reality.
Globalised earth, multinational corporations, the powers that be controlling whole world, individuality loss, deprivation, people experiencing virtual joys and vitual sex...
We can see how this will end. Good ol´ cyberpunk. Read Neuromancer or play Deus Ex, and see the future.
Machines are not going to be equal to OUR possibilities.
They don´t need it, they will exceed their own and took over.
(However, only if "illuminati" will let them do it)=my 0,2 to conspiracy theories))

 

[MrGreen]

I just still believe that computers are just simulators and no matter how advanced they get, they are still just simulating things.

Let me use computer animation as an example. No matter how realistic it appears, it is still just animation and not reality. It will get to the point very soon where you cant tell the difference between the two, but they are still completely different.
A computer can be programed to be able to detect a humorous anecdote and then react with an appropriate laugh, but it can't genuinely relate to it and become amused.

 

[bassnut]

I just still believe that computers are just simulators and no matter how advanced they get, they are still just simulating things.

Let me use computer animation as an example. No matter how realistic it appears, it is still just animation and not reality. It will get to the point very soon where you cant tell the difference between the two, but they are still completely different.
A computer can be programed to be able to detect a humorous anecdote and then react with an appropriate laugh, but it can't genuinely relate to it and become amused.

You are talking about a machine doing a pre-programmed task. The "Artificial Intelligences" focus is around programming machines to learn and make decisions based on the collected data. Isn't that basically what we do? This reality is being shown in the posted videos. It seems crude now (or not, depending) but if you could see ahead just 100 years, you'd be astounded.

You're right about a computer not being able to genuinely relate to humor the way we do. They may never. That was explored in a STNG with Commander Data's dilemma. Emotion (or lack of) in androids is widely explored in SciFi lit.

What makes us laugh? What is humor? What makes something funny? Try honestly exploring that idea. I actually know people with very little sense of humor and they're not (I don't think) autistic. That's another interesting phenomena in itself.

 

[Surf Monkey]

I just still believe that computers are just simulators and no matter how advanced they get, they are still just simulating things.

Maybe. But I think it depends on how closely the synapses in the brain can be replicated. With quantum computing, the capability should be there to make a very close approximation. At its most basic, the brain is really the same thing as a computer. Just a huge mass of on and off switches. A very complex and sophisticated mass of on/off switches, but still working on the same basic principles as the computer chips we already have. I see no reason why a sufficiently complex and advanced computer couldn't mimic every aspect of a human brain up to and including self awareness.

 

[NCC]

What makes us laugh? What is humor? What makes something funny? Try honestly exploring that idea.

It appears to me that most humor is based on pointing out a perceived inferior quality of another person, or group of people, or thing. Most humor relies on making a person laugh by feeling superior to the subject(s) of the joke. Androids may be incapable of this leap in logic. I'm with the androids on this type of humor.

 

[Surf Monkey]

The core of humor is the unexpected.

 

[MrGreen]

I suppose it wouldn't take a sense-of-humorless robot to not find Dane Cook funny.

 

[bassnut]

This is interesting and sorta funny.
I can't figure out how it's done. CGI? Very realistic.
Mac user caution: This is not for the squeamish.

YouTube - The Secret Mission of the Terminator