With the jaw-dropping magics of Hollywood portrait to all humans every year, I can't help to wonder how will the future looks like for robots & AI.
While some can argue that robots and AI are partly of two separate categories, this is where we discuss how 20-50 years down the road, whether those two are really different, or by then had merged into one entity.

On the general knowledge of the public, the opinions on the best robots today varies alot.
By usage, the best robots would be those in manufacturing factories, making cars and other jobs that would be troublesome for humans.
By research, perhaps its about those bi-pedal robots that were developed to mimic the human beings.

The same goes with AI.
Best of all AI? Perhaps its that chess computer.
Usage-wise? It depends again on what humans want them to do.

Then if we look into the future, its not possible that whatever we see in those sci-fi flicks, to become a reality.
From the human-like robots that is equipped with AI mimicking human emotions & mingle around with us everyday, to the human-robots/AI war possibility, due to the AI assuming position that humans are doing more harm to our planet than preserving them for the later generations.

This post has been edited by firedauz: Jul 1 2009, 01:31 PM