30th August 2005, 8:51 PM
Haha, true enough.
So far I'm happy with basic level communication in the form of single words or phrases, all within the context of what it can do in it's programming.
For a truly dynamic conversation, everything I've seen suggests the need for a truly dynamic processor. Basically, a computer with all the parts firing and recieving signals at once and functionally with no central processor. So far all we have that can do that are brains, BRAINS!
Now, I don't think it's impossible that we could actually create such a thing. Well, not US, but those go get em programmers 50 years, at least, from now. Even then, it would be an imitation if we make one under that estamate. It would not be us truly understanding and developing a mind but rather artificially making one based on existing models (like our own brains) even if we don't know how exactly it all works.
As for truly understanding how everything comes together, everything I've seen heard and read suggests it's not even known if we WILL ever figure it out.
It's like Hawking inferred... In the future, even if we get a theory of everything comprising of laws that explain how the universe works in all scopes, we'll still have trouble figuring out people and clouds.
So far I'm happy with basic level communication in the form of single words or phrases, all within the context of what it can do in it's programming.
For a truly dynamic conversation, everything I've seen suggests the need for a truly dynamic processor. Basically, a computer with all the parts firing and recieving signals at once and functionally with no central processor. So far all we have that can do that are brains, BRAINS!
Now, I don't think it's impossible that we could actually create such a thing. Well, not US, but those go get em programmers 50 years, at least, from now. Even then, it would be an imitation if we make one under that estamate. It would not be us truly understanding and developing a mind but rather artificially making one based on existing models (like our own brains) even if we don't know how exactly it all works.
As for truly understanding how everything comes together, everything I've seen heard and read suggests it's not even known if we WILL ever figure it out.
It's like Hawking inferred... In the future, even if we get a theory of everything comprising of laws that explain how the universe works in all scopes, we'll still have trouble figuring out people and clouds.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)