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Originally posted by hu flung dung:
Learning isn't a sign of intelligence! It is nothing more than keeping a record of your experiences for future use!
For example: if a robot was programmed to walk through a maze, it would keep a record of the location of every dead-end it runs into, so it wouldn't go there again! After going through the entire maze once, it would have 'learned', or kept a record of the correct path to take if it had to go through the maze a second time!
Yes I know it does not show intelligence, all I was saying is that this is the begining. And if there is enough horse power behind it I do believe that the "thing" whatever if maybe will some day think for it self.
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By 'thinking', what do you actually mean? Could you be more specific on how this robot was thinking, or what this robot was thinking about?
A little while ago I was watching this program on TV that showed scientists talking about this very same subject. Well they showed a rebot that could "think" on it's own. Of course this "thinking" it was doing was at the level of a mouse, it's still incredible what we can do these days. The rebot was reacting with the humans, they have taught it how to greet people, and some interaction with them, like count, etc. But anyways I think you get my point. They have a long ways to go of course, but I'm just saying that it has already began and at the rate there going they will have machines that will compute information as fast as our brains do in 20-40 years.