Is Terminator 3 possible??

[nycdiesel]

Im sure most of us are familair with "Terminater"...my question is......is it possible? Can man create artificial inteligance and robots that will one day take over mankind.......? we all know that computers are smarter and faster than a humans intellegance.......look at something as simple as a calculator.
With all the technological advances in todays society and in the world today, i for one, think one day it will happen...and i think it will be in my lifetime.

 

[blut wump]

I used to race my brother on additions with a calculator, as in he had the calculator. I always won. Obviously, if he could have found some way to enter the data super-fast he'd have won but, as is common with any use of computers, the human element is the weak link.

The same applies to programs: a program is only as good as the programmer was able to make it. Computers can be astoundingly fast but they are as smart as a butter-knife. They can, however, be used to do some amazing things when well-programmed.

Someone, maybe Alan Turing, came up with the Turing Test for whether a computer/program can be deemed intelligent. It focused on whether it was able to hold a conversation with a human and fool the human into thinking that he/she was talking to a human rather than a computer. Even with this limited, and possibly irrelevant, definition, we're still far from regular success.

At the moment, we have no indications that it will be possible to produce anything that a reasonable man would consider to be intelligent. The issue is still clouded by our not having a good definition of intelligence but self-awareness is probably the greatest stumbling block. Self-awareness leading in turn to self-motivation.

 

[nycdiesel]

I used to race my brother on additions with a calculator, as in he had the calculator. I always won. Obviously, if he could have found some way to enter the data super-fast he'd have won but, as is common with any use of computers, the human element is the weak link.

The same applies to programs: a program is only as good as the programmer was able to make it. Computers can be astoundingly fast but they are as smart as a butter-knife. They can, however, be used to do some amazing things when well-programmed.

Someone, maybe Alan Turing, came up with the Turing Test for whether a computer/program can be deemed intelligent. It focused on whether it was able to hold a conversation with a human and fool the human into thinking that he/she was talking to a human rather than a computer. Even with this limited, and possibly irrelevant, definition, we're still far from regular success.

At the moment, we have no indications that it will be possible to produce anything that a reasonable man would consider to be intelligent. The issue is still clouded by our not having a good definition of intelligence but self-awareness is probably the greatest stumbling block. Self-awareness leading in turn to self-motivation.

wow...exellent info.....you really know ur facts about things.
i disagree though, i do think that machines will catch up to man...if u give me a few days i will have some research from books, journals, ect to support my theory

 

[blut wump]

Cool, I look forward to reading.

and thanks for the kind words.

 

[NJL52]

You could simulate AI eventually after a long time of programming. Given enough "what if" situations and possible answers then the computer could seem intelligent. But I don't think that you could ever make a computer have an opinion or a bias that deviates humans from an AI.