Machine/Artificial intelligence

Intelligence is one of the most complicated phenomenon in nature. Human intelligence is the intellectual capacity of humans, which is characterized by perception, consciousness and self-awareness. Artificial intelligence on the other hand is both the intelligence of the machine itself and the computer science which created it. Incredible progress has been made in computer science and information technology. The personal computer of today has far more computer power than all the computers of 1950 together and it’s more complex than all the computers needed to land the Apollo astronauts on the moon. Computer science is fairly new and has a lot of room left to expand.

Development


 Last year saw one of the major landmarks on the way to creating artificial intelligence. Scientists at IBM programmed a computer called Watson.

Getting a machine to pass itself off as a human was one of the key obstacles IBM believed a machine would need to pass before it would be a successful artificial intelligence. A computer still doesn’t have empathy and imagination to think for it’s own and therefore it is still a dumb machine. Exciting new research is currently exploring how creative machines can be in music and art. Stravinsky once wrote that he could only be creative by working within strict constraints: "My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings." With this knowledge, computer engineers at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratory in Paris are beginning to produce machines that create new and unique forms of musical composition. The next step would be that robots evolve themselves, like making and improving their own language. The Belgian computer scientist Luc Steels who founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris has created robots can do this. Each robot creates his own language for its own actions. When multiple robots were put together they adapted each others language just like humans. It is a language that turns out to be sophisticated enough to include words that represent the concept of "left" and "right". These words evolve on top of the direct correspondence between word and body position. With this technology it won’t be long until robots can be used in daily activity.

Consciousness
The question is would a computer have a spirit that manages its behavior. Computers are machines that we have created. Whether they ever achieve consciousness or outstrip us in creativity, they can never have their own spirit. They will simply reflect their creation by humans. Unless technology would become capable of creating a system more complex than the human brain.