AI - a load of tosh?

[golem]

Theres a programme on Horizon tonight in the UK about AI and it's about the idea that by 2029 computers will equal the power of the human brain. I think this is a pile of ostrich feathers. Computers will never be intelligent they are dumb soulless automatons. Their inability to think is why programming is so goddam hard. These crazy scientists think we may be able to download our brains and live indefinitely. I'm no religious fanatic but yeah right!
What do you guys think?

[golem]

Karlos wrote:
"Intelligent" systems are very rarely programmed. They are trained.

True but behind that system of heuristics sits a deterministic algorithm that some logic circuits mindlessly execute.

[golem]

Karlos wrote:

True but behind that system of heuristics sits a deterministic algorithm that some logic circuits mindlessly execute.

Different from the electrochemical signalling between neurons in what way, exactly?

I would like to think different in the way that we can feel them happening in our brains. A heuristic system doesn't feel its logic circuits or anything for that matter. You could counter that feelings are just another type of system I suppose but I would say that makes you alienated. They put people on antipsychotics for thinking they are a robot you know  :-)

[golem]

I thought it was interesting but they didn't really show any computers being intelligent concentrated more on the growing interface between humans and computers. I thought the guy in charge of the quantum computer was "knitting with only one needle"! His laugh was maniac.  

[golem]

Karlos wrote:
Yeah, he was definately a bit of a twitcher.

However, having studied QM in enough depth to elucidate the strange chemical properties of atoms and molecules I can fully understand why :lol:

Are you a chemistry student Karlos?
I once tried to get my head round a populist book on QM but
failed really I think.