will Artificial Inteligence ever emerge why or why not?
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Yes I believe it will. Just look at the advances in computers over the last 50 years. 50 years from now, I think they (computers) will be able to think on their own.
659892
If they are coming here that automatically makes them unintelligent, so no.  \n\nJust kidding, but I do not think they are for many reasons too vast to list.\n\nPeace Out
543280
Yes, theoretically its possible to make the computer think. This is called as AI (Artificial Intelligence). However the current technologies are good enough to make machines think within a narrow domain.\n\nYou tell the computer how a human would take a decision. The computer then analyses several such responses and decides the best course of action.
818448
Artificial intelligence robot construction would help.
807994
See my article, Computers, Artificial Intelligence, Brains, and Souls.\n\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholiccommunity/message/39009\n\n\n\n\n---
419017
Yes, but I belive that one day, machines will be feared to high exxtent, due to the intelligence, that are programmed into machines. As the technology in machines increase, so does my fear.
1176979
At present a computer is only as smart as its programmers, so the answer to your question would be no...humans who program the computer, create the parameters, and feed information would ultimately be the decision makers because the computer would only have the information offered.
453829
If machines become as intelligent as humans, I would guess they would hate everything like us.  So I guess we would have another war.  Something to think about.
377318
Artificial speech. Made by machine. Robot language
431564
Then it would no longer be artificial. Rather do a lot of humans have any intelligence to control with?
746885
The best answer you are going to get for that can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
729317
Why would it suddenly become an issue?  Stem cell research, perhaps, but AI, I think not.
413128
From a rhetorical point of view, yes. From a scientific one? Maybe.\n\nI would expect that you'd need to quantify "as much functionality." It seems too broad and untestable.
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Yes. It's called AI (Artificail Intelegence). i know a great site for it. Try http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1 for an AI chatbot, which you can have a conversation with.
903234
Cant rule out the possibility. \nBut..... based on currently available technology its very unlikely  within the next 50 to100 years. Definitely not in our life time.
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Well, I don't think it's ever been determined because it's very hard to do a study on it. "Information" is very vague, and the results will fluctuate wildly.\n\nBut people with high intelligence would have a higher capacity to learn.
105577
No, but the lack of a similar increase in psychological growth in mankind has caused our technological development to outstrip our maturity as a species.  The sudden increase in information and the resulting challenges to everyone's world views due to access to the web and instant information should be sufficient to give us a chance to catch up a bit.  Then the technology will be much easier to handle and use wisely.