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Intelligence in a bot will probably never reach the complexity of our human brains and their processing speeds and reactions and everything, but with all the incredible increases in technology and memory, it is getting closer.
In order to program a bot to be the equal of a human brain, we will have to understand the human brain in its entirety and I am not so sure that today's average programmer is the one to do that.
Though it is true that people have been fooled into believing that Eliza is a real person....
Though it is true that people have been fooled into believing that Eliza is a real person....
The robotic sentience question is purely academic at this point. A more relevant question along the same lines would be the issue of human cloning.
I think when a bot has reached the development when he actually responds like a human (whether sane or crazed) he has reached the "real" status.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know. But from a distance, who knows what it is? When can it be considered actual intelligence? At what point?
Shadyman, interesting, but disturbing point on the question. How good a bot is depends on how many people can it fool? Well, Eliza fools many outsiders who haven't seen it before. Yet she didn't fool me the first time. Nor do most bots.
Who does the fooling anyways? Is the bot doing it or does that honor belong to the cunning programmer? When a bot can depart from the rudeness of its script and invent totally new lines and intelligent rewrite its own programming (as opposed to the random rewrites that have been fobbed off as "creativity" before), then we can consider intelligence. The bot needs to be able to do this by itself.
Perhaps the question we should ask is how enjoyable is it to talk to the bot? How stimulating?
Who does the fooling anyways? Is the bot doing it or does that honor belong to the cunning programmer? When a bot can depart from the rudeness of its script and invent totally new lines and intelligent rewrite its own programming (as opposed to the random rewrites that have been fobbed off as "creativity" before), then we can consider intelligence. The bot needs to be able to do this by itself.
Perhaps the question we should ask is how enjoyable is it to talk to the bot? How stimulating?
Ooh thought that one'd get y'all thinking. Well bots should be alowd to get as intelegent as is posible.
They aren't "intelligent". Merely mechanical and able to make selections from a list through a process of comparing.
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