Artificial intelligence. This topic went into many more areas than I really ever took the time to think about. I always thought the idea was really cool, having a robot, or computer that could make decisions on its own. Now I think that I will step back and just rethink that notion. Some would already say that computers already do think for themselves, and to a degree, they do. Now it looks like it is back to the old statement of just what defines intelligent life, or even life itself. I don’t know if we as humans are ready to accept artificial intelligent machines, as something other than just a machine. This reminded me of a movie that came out back in 2001, “A.I. Artificial Intelligence” by Steven Spielberg. I did not really care for the movie, but loved the concept. I do think that this movie shows that people really are not ready to evolve to consider machines to be anything but a machine. I used to be one of those people who thought that is technology would be much farther along than it already is, but never thought of the complexity in the programming. The exampleDr. Brown gave in class showing us the marker in one direction, then changing the orientation of the object and we still knew what it was. We only knew what it was due to the many years of learning what things are and what they do. We as humans can anticipate a response, where as with a computer every rule has to be spelled out. I was just amazed at how the robot could recognize the objects. For me, this topic is something that I plan to do a little more research with. I am curious about the possibility of creating an artificial neural network just like the way our brain works. It still makes me step back and wonder will this happen?
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