Issues regarding the future/development of Artificial Intelligence

[UCDznutz]

i'm writing a paper for my english class that will sort of explain to people who are not computer science majors how and why artificial intelligence is developed and programmed.

Its not a really long paper that requires extensive research (only 4 pages in length) but i was just wondering what some issues/important info on AI I should be looking at when considering a paper like this. So far all i've got is where AI sits on the levels of programming languages, translating human intelligence to AI, maybe some displays of AI in the world, and touch a bit on the MIT AI Lab. Any ideas? GOtta be interesting to folks who dont' really know much about the whole computer science field. That's pretty much the hard part.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Link

Lots of AI education going o there.


Lethal


EDIT: spelling

 

[UCDznutz]

just thought about the Kasparov vs Deep Blue chess match. anyone else wanna contribute?

 

[her209]

Autonomy.... ummmm.

 

[amnesiac]

Well the ultimate purpose of AI is to create a substitute for a human brain. Granted, lower levels of AI can have specialized purposes, but the true goal is a man-made creation capable thinking, learning, and acquiring new knowledge and behavior.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Does The Terminator movies count?

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: amnesiac 2.0
Well the ultimate purpose of AI is to create a substitute for a human brain. Granted, lower levels of AI can have specialized purposes, but the true goal is a man-made creation capable thinking, learning, and acquiring new knowledge and behavior.

Its called having kids.

 

[AnyMal]

Do you have to argue for or against it? If it was up to me, I would destroy all research pertaining to AI, but that's a topic for whole another thread.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Do you have to argue for or against it? If it was up to me, I would destroy all research pertaining to AI, but that's a topic for whole another thread.

Why?

 

[UCDznutz]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Do you have to argue for or against it? If it was up to me, I would destroy all research pertaining to AI, but that's a topic for whole another thread.

no we're not arguing for or against it. all we have to do is inform the reader about the subject in a manner that anyone can understand it, not just folks who are in related fields. so just some generalized topics would be alright.

oh yeah and what problems do you have in it? i'm doing a couple paragraphs on the negative possibilities on AI.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Do you have to argue for or against it? If it was up to me, I would destroy all research pertaining to AI, but that's a topic for whole another thread.

Why?

he's watched the matrix one to many times

 

[wQuay]

Start with the history of AI, summarize the approaches to AI programming (recursive, neural, evolutionary, etc), document past and present uses of AI (automation in factories, search engines, Deep Blue), and speculate on the possibilities for the future (driving software, personal tutors and assistants, and computer models of individual human brains). Somewhere in there you have to explain the challenges of developing AI, but that's the only really difficult part IMO.

 

[AnyMal]

Originally posted by: JudistPriest

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Do you have to argue for or against it? If it was up to me, I would destroy all research pertaining to AI, but that's a topic for whole another thread.

Why?

he's watched the matrix one to many times

Funny you should say that... Now, I do consider myself sane and can tell the difference between life and fiction. But... Having watched most movies dealing with AI (Terminator, Matrix, AI) I couldn't help but think, who's to say that once actual AI is developed and it reaches the point of being able to make decisions on its own and to act out on those decisions, what can stop it? What separates us, the humans, from AI is that we make decisions based not only on logic but also feelings. Well, with AI, feelings are no longer a part of equation and that's what concerns me the most. Unless we will have a surefire way of containing AI, there is no guarantee that scenarios depicted in AI or Matrix would seem too far fetched.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: AnyMal

Originally posted by: JudistPriest

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Do you have to argue for or against it? If it was up to me, I would destroy all research pertaining to AI, but that's a topic for whole another thread.

Why?

he's watched the matrix one to many times

Funny you should say that... Now, I do consider myself sane and can tell the difference between life and fiction. But... Having watched most movies dealing with AI (Terminator, Matrix, AI) I couldn't help but think, who's to say that once actual AI is developed and it reaches the point of being able to make decisions on its own and to act out on those decisions, what can stop it? What separates us, the humans, from AI is that we make decisions based not only on logic but also feelings. Well, with AI, feelings are no longer a part of equation and that's what concerns me the most. Unless we will have a surefire way of containing AI, there is no guarantee that scenarios depicted in AI or Matrix would seem too far fetched.

we will just have to remember not to network the AI with a tank building factory