kef writes:
"By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google's director of engineering Ray Kurzweil.
Kurzweil says:
Computers are on the threshold of reading and understanding the semantic content of a language, but not quite at human levels. But since they can read a million times more material than humans they can make up for that with quantity. So IBM's Watson is a pretty weak reader on each page, but it read the 200m pages of Wikipedia. And basically what I'm doing at Google is to try to go beyond what Watson could do. To do it at Google scale. Which is to say to have the computer read tens of billions of pages. Watson doesn't understand the implications of what it's reading. It's doing a sort of pattern matching. It doesn't understand that if John sold his red Volvo to Mary that involves a transaction or possession and ownership being transferred. It doesn't understand that kind of information and so we are going to actually encode that, really try to teach it to understand the meaning of what these documents are saying.
Skynet anyone?"
(Score: 1) by threedigits on Monday February 24 2014, @11:13AM
Easy, because it/she/he will start asking interesting questions, specially about him/her/itself. At this point you have a conscious intelligent being.
(Score: 5, Funny) by TGV on Monday February 24 2014, @11:16AM
An intelligent 5 year old "software human"
10 PRINT "Why?"
20 GOTO 10
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @01:07PM
You forgot a line:
(Score: 1) by githaron on Monday February 24 2014, @03:26PM
He was trying to increase the functional efficiency of the algorithm.
(Score: 1) by c0lo on Monday February 24 2014, @11:49AM
Whooa there cowboy, hold your horses.
I can guarantee you all the primates now in existence are self-conscious. However, I'm yet to hear of an ape that asks interesting questions; why, a lot of the homo sapience primates would fail this probe.
Want a proof, you say? When was the last time you had a "townhall meeting with the upper management" and how much of interest did that action awoke in you? (I mean... letting aside the excitement of being the first to shout bingo [wikipedia.org]).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by TGV on Monday February 24 2014, @01:28PM
I think the comment was meant in jest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @02:14PM
If the history of AI research has proven anything, it's that conscious awareness is not as simple as "throwing more computing power" at the problem. We can't build it if we really don't understand what we're building.