Originally posted by AMD Soldier

I've heard there is software out there that learns by itself.
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!

Also there are robots that can "think" for themselves already. I'm actually afraid of this technology.
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 robot (or computer program) can do any task that has a pattern to it! I have made a program that can solve logic puzzles. Humans have to think when doing these puzzles, but my program just applies trial-and-error to a series of pre-programmed rules to derive the solution for the logic puzzle.