Intelligent Artificial Beings
By: Alex Tison
What is an Intelligent Being?
An artificial intelligent being is anything other than human or animal that is created to interact with its environment just as a human or any real being would.
Amazing!!!!!!!!!!
Ethical Questions
1) can a living being be conscious and not be able to suffer ? 2) can a living being suffer and not be conscious? These are all questions asked when it comes down to the experiments and rigorous tests scientists use when it comes to creating artificial beings.
Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
In 1996 Big Blue a computer was created and was put to the test to compete against Gary Kasparov. The computer won but what does this really mean? After all, Big Blue was not able to move the pieces around, let alone actually see the chess board itself.
More Modern pioneers
Rodney Brookes came on to the scene to help explain how an artificial being could interact with its environment through either locomotion, speech or social interaction. At first Brookes work wasnt viewed as best the but once he released his experiment insects into there own world to function people started paying his work some attention and it became a big deal to society.
Todays Ideas on Artificial Intelligence!!!!!!!
After Brookes created the Kismet a robot that can respond to social cues researchers and scientists are trying to come up with ideas having a machine that can respond to the blink of an eye or the lift of a finger in helping severely disabled people around the house. There is even a robot that can help diagnose autism in children by interacting with them socially and then analyzing the results.
Questions to be asked??
First and for most what is your take on artificially created beings? How Do you feel about human testing in order to create these beings? What kind of technological advance do you think will spring forth from the creations of these beings.
References
http://www.parsel.abe.msstate.edu/plot http://abc.net.au/science/slab/robo/ai.h http://www.philosophos.com/knowledge Byte Magazine, Computer Convergence Magazine.