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Can somebody please inform me about what benefits AI is percieved to have.

I.e - What points are they selling all the research on?

Thanks.

me: clean my room!!
robot: yes master
me: cook my dinner
robot: yes master
me: stop leaking oil everywhere
robot: sorry master
*wakes robot*
robot: malfunction
me: WTF?, losy pice of junk
*kicks robot*
robot: detecting hostility
me: hostillity?
robot: destroy hostile
*robots chest opens up and a minigun appears*
me: MUMMY!!!!!!

Personally I think 'mind' gets in the way of things when trying to make computers more useful.

How about instead mucking around with the nucleus of a cell, y'know, the brain that decides what that cell is going to do and when.

Then you could tinker about with the DNA in there and instead of the cell taking in oxygen, mixing it in the mitochondria with glucose and producing energy, it could take in oxygen, mix it in the mitochondria with glucose and produce cyanide after a certain time had elapsed.

Taking cells a little further, it's well known that cells communicate with each other socially in hundreds of different ways, only some of which we're aware of.

So instead of getting one cell to shout "Hey guys, you're muscle tissue now!" which would cause all the neighbours within earshot to convert to muscle cells, it could perhaps shout something more useful like "Hey guys, got an equation here for you to work out..."

The biological computer is born. And I haven't even touched on nanotechnology yet :)

The benefits are we can be lazy sods and let a hunk of metal do all our work for us. And there are no moral or ethical issues to worry about, at least not until some anti-anti-ethical protestor comes along and wrecks it for everyone...

That's just 'true' AI

I did an essay on it a couple of years back.

True AI got stuck in development many years ago trying to understand a nursery rhyme that a four year old could.

The ways that people have got around it is by using different languages such as Prolog (conditional languages I think) to simulate understanding, but this understanding obviously still has limits.

I suppose the ability to learn - a bit like the neural chip in the T101's. To be non-linear and to be able to communicate freely.

Also good AI can stop robotic dogs from dumping in the corner of your living room when you're not looking.

In saying that, the Japanese had a big 10 year project that was meant to develop the best AI out there for what ever reason. 10 years and £100's of millions later the project shut, with barely any success to its name.

Cyclone wrote:
> I.e - What points are they selling all the research on?

Researcher:
"Hey, computer! Which horse will win the 3:15 at Newmarket today?"
"Bzzzt... Glidingonby."
"Cool."

Department of Defense:
"We'll take 100."

Can somebody please inform me about what benefits AI is percieved to have.

I.e - What points are they selling all the research on?

Thanks.