bi pedal humanoid robot is probably the worst type of robot there is out there if you've ask me.

Why walk when you can put wheels on yourself? Why build a head when you can contain everything within a 'torso' unit and protect with tons and tons of armor?

Reason for them to exist is technologist want to make them more 'human'. Logical perspective into consideration like cost, efficiency etc. Humanoid robot IMO is best used as, guess what? A non-organic pet

Artificial Intelligence is well, artificial. It's all scripted and the robot simply follows a logic path. A scenario in I-Robot where the main character(Will Smith) fell into the water with another small kid. The robot rescued him instead of the kid because analysis worked out that he has a better chance of survival and in that kind of scenario, all AI with the same code/script/design will do the same thing. Human intelligences permit other outcome to such scenario even if we're given the odds of survival.

Self learning robot is still far from reality. Scientist claim they're able to make robot learn by themselves. I take another scenario. A self-learning robot picks up a cube, using sensor and determined it as a cube, what if I remove the programming that was placed inside of it's processor before activation to recognize cube? Well, the bot can take out the encycloped... oh wait, do they even know what a book is?

What's behind the scene that drives human intelligence is something eluded scientist. I don't believe we're anywhere near in developing it, let alone perfecting it. Robots and AI still need the creator, us(humans) to give them the power of thought. The infamous fictional Skynet can be a reality one day, it's dangerous to have too much intelligence(even artificial one) minus the proper amount of humanity backing it up.

Well, we're not talking about just any robot that fulfill a single role, it's more about robots that have sentient mind without artificial scripts programmed by human.

I've said earlier, specialist robot is the best for what it do. The entire sentience thingy is related to creating a robot that THINKS like a human and not for only a specialist purpose.

We are programmed by our society and education system, but we can still defy and question what has been said. Given an AI with 10000 times the power of a single human brain, they wouldn't conceive basic thoughts that sparks many scientific breakthrough we've seen. AI is still a piece of software that will work only within it's parameter.

Well this topic is about robot and AI anyway, I was discussing about AI and since you do not care I don't think you should be discussing anything about it, no?

1) Everybody can feel, and inevitably they can't escape feeling everything around them. The only way to defy that law is to live in a state of denial but when it's in denial it's a world fabricated out of one's fantasy, that's no longer science.

2) Existence is physical, meaning if you're dead, people still know you. Living is part of existence.

You said most, that means not all, and with the option to CHOOSE to feel or not that's the biggest difference between us and an AI system. AI system can't be selective in what it absorb; A chess playing AI will never put up a bluff in a poker game UNLESS it's scripted to do so.

Biological creations are the best model only when they fit the intended function. I am saying a bi-pedal robot is the worst possible design in specialist function because they're made into jack of all trade.

I gave example when I said wheels, now tell me, is running on 2 legs faster than 2 wheels if you were tasked to move through every single city of Europe?

Why you asked? It's nature for human to explore every possibility. Why don't you ask the scientist who are pursuing the same thing too?

Yes you're right and you're just bringing back all my points that artificial intelligence is different from human intelligence(I already said something along that line in my 1st(2nd in thread) post).

Human being IGNORE things and event, but can an AI system do that, give enough confusing/clashing input to an AI system and it'll crash. Human simply takes a time out and slowly figure out everything. If I were to bet on whether an AI system or a human brain is able to come out with the theory of everything, I put my bet on the human brain. If you feed an AI system both law of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, it won't come up with anything like String Theory.

Scientist don't obey the rule of engineering that 'if it works, why fix it?' Science QUESTION everything. What is there to discuss here if everybody just say forget it since everything is working, why fix it?

And superman is the most irrelevant thing I've read in this thread so far. It's being totally ridiculous.

We're not discussing soul here, but human intelligence and comparison of AI to human intelligence.


Already answered you on the first quote.

Computing power is the shortcut to human like intelligence, the computer generates all the possible outcome of an event and choose the best. Very basic AI system still uses this pure brute force method.

These figures were made up through MRI scan plotting area with activity peaks. If we only use 3-6% of our brain, why would we need such a big brain to start with?

A simple injury to one tiny part of your brain will kill you and I don't think that support the above mentioned theory at all.