Artifcial Intelgencei

In addition to reading Chapter 9, review the following resources:

* Google Talk gets translation services (via robots)

* Translation bots – Google talk help 

* Google previews new translation services

Alan Turing said, "The extent to which we regard something as behaving in an intelligent manner is determined as much by our own state of mind and training as by the properties of the object under consideration."  Given the developments in cloud computing, automatic speech recognition, instantaneous optical recognition, and real-time translation of languages in mobile devices, are we now closer to achieving artificial intelligence and singularity?  Why?  Will the humanity be better off with or without the passing of singularity?  Which benefits will we enjoy?  Will we ever have to be worried about a system like HAL, the malevolent computer in the movie "2001"?  Explore ethical implications that will be realized.  

After your initial posting, participate and respond to at least two of your fellow students’ postings and begin a critical debate with them. This will stimulate critical thought and help you recognize theoretical gaps or flaws in basic assumptions, both yours and your classmates.

Artificial Intelligence, Singularity, and Google Week 5, Discussion 1

Given the developments in cloud computing, automatic speech recognition, instantaneous optical recognition, and real-time translation of languages in mobile devices, are we now closer to achieving artificial intelligence and singularity?  Why? 

I believe we are extremely close to achieving artificial intelligence and singularity. I say this because in some ways we have already created artificial intelligence. When I was doing research for this question I came across an article about a new app for iPhone and Android based phone. The app is sort of like a next-gen Siri, it is an artificial intelligence-based, context-aware platform for location-based services. This means that recommendations...