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Expert: Chuck Cosby - 11/8/2009
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QUESTION: Is there a code that the living does to programming in 3D (the 5 senses) the data in the mind that AI researcher are missing? I was thinking that humans know what a cat is before they can spell it and can even identify cat by a person saying cat. Helen Keller was considered insane until tought by feeling.
ANSWER: the living use a parallel processing system referred to as a 'Neural Net' (made of Nuerons). Computers use serial processing and it is completely different. This why computers can add millions of numbers and people can't. People can recognize flowers and cats and computers cannot - well - they are starting to do this. search the Internet for 'Neural Networks' for more information on this.
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QUESTION: Could or are they combining the Parallel processing system and the serial processing system? The Computers that are starting to recognize flowers and cats could use a common base root for I guess the six senses vision, hearing, feeling, taste, smell, and knowledge. so all senses default to ?????(makes space for the newly unknown whatever and want to learn more), then as The AI learn about a cat the senses add it to the momory blank spots, the knowledge learned. Then the other senses pull the AI mind to what is going on i.e. cat screatches> Somebody says your stepping on the cat's tail> somebody says, move your foot your hurting the cat> good or move the other foot> AI learn to look out for tail. Next time when AI approches the cat it has a short cut to looks where the cat's tail is and appled those pattern to other pets that screatches.
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you are talking about Neural Nets that 'learn' - right now most Neural Nets are simulated in a traditional serial based computer. Actual hardware for Neural Nets is not really working yet. Basically the situation is that the technology is in a very primative state. Your question is very far beyond anything possible at this moment. AI is based on the ability to communicate with a computer. The obvious best way is through speech. It would also be good for computers to be to 'see' as well. The problem with true conversational speech interaction - human to computer - is enormous. This problem has not been solved and won't be for at least 5 - 10 years. What about all the telephone based speech systems that United Airlines and Amtrak and others use? These are extremely primitive systems that can't really converse with the user even in the most basic sense. They ask simple questions and expect simple answers. What is the definition of AI as it relates to conversational speech based interaction? Of course you can see in the movies and on TV what the expectation is. The most extreme was the movie AI where the small boy in the film was an 'android' and could be 'loved' by humans. This kind of thing is centuries in the future if ever. What we would like to see as a first approximation of AI is a functional conversational system for purchasing products (like airline tickets) in a completely natural conversational fashion as if you were talking to a human. This may occur in the next 10 years or so. You might also be able to manipulate other software programs with natural conversation such as Microsoft Office. This will be the primary practical advantage of AI, the ability to control computers and machines. This will be done with pure serial processing based computers to start with. Neural Nets are decades further down the road.
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