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One common idea in science
fiction films is that what if machines and computers gain human like reasoning.
What will happen to the human race if it really does exist? Will it be good
such that we can live side by side with them as they make life easier, or will
they gain dominance to humanity as they overthrow our reign? Many films already
portrayed an advanced civilization where machines can comprehend humans and
think like us like Jarvis from Iron Man.Remember
Wall-e and Eve? They were actually robots built to perform a certain function
but have a more complex reasoning like appreciation, care, and love. But in our
present technology, is it really possible?
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Artificial Intelligence was the term given to the ability of
machines and other computing devices to act as intelligent and have reasoning
just like ours. Computers having it should be able to perform certain tasks
that would require intelligence like perception, learning, reasoning,
knowledge, planning, and common sense. It started around 1950s when Alan Turing
published “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. He stated that if a machine
can past a test which is now known as the Turing test, then it can be
considered intelligent. The Turing test involves a human judge asking a
question to a computer and another human via computer terminal. If the judge
had difficulty on distinguishing which one is the computer and which is the
human, then the computer will pass the test.
The field of artificial
intelligence has always been interesting because of the many possibilities that
it offers. In fact, many are researching about the field and there were already
some developments with notable outcomes.
On the year 1996, Gary Kasparov,
a world renowned chess master just lost to an IBM computer known as deep blue
which can process 200 million moves per second. It showed how a computer defeated the human intellect in
planning and strategy in chess which is a great achievement in the field of
computer because it gives hope in the future of AI. Kasparov had a rematch with
deep blue on 1997 resulting to 1 win, 1 loss, and 3 draws.
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Do you know Sim Simi? You were
probably bored when you tried it. It is an AI program that the user can
converse with. It can be taught what to response correctly and what shouldn’t so
it grows as it is talked to.
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For those engaging in computer
games, you’re probably familiar with AI as the one you can play with when you’re
just practicing or when you don’t have anyone to play with. AI or bots have been developed in many games that
require an opponent like DotA, Warcraft, or even tetris battle on facebook.
Google just bought deepmind, an
artificial intelligence company. It has a general-purpose learning algorithm
from machine learning which can have critical thinking like identifying what is
in an image without a human telling it what’s in there. It may be used in
google image search and robotic technology to perform tasks independently
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As you can see, there’s already a good development in
artificial intelligence like game playing, speech recognition, vision, self-learning,
and understanding language, but it is still very limited and most are not as
good as the human mind. I think the field still has a long way to go. It may
have excelled at some points like being a chess master but it doesn’t compromise
the whole of human thinking but just a part of it. It actually offers a great
possibility knowing that computers has a lot more processing and computing
capabilities than our mind but I can’t say if they will be successful in
developing a technology capable of doing all what our brain can like good
reasoning and common sense.
By: Rasty M. Rastrullo
2013-41010
Sources:
István S. N. Berkeley Ph.D. ,1997. What is
Artificial Intelligence?. http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~isb9112/dept/phil341/wisai/WhatisAI.html.
Mar 6, 2014
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