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Company Claims Development of True AI

Posted by Zonk on from the next-stop-skynet dept.

YF 19 AVF wrote to mention a press release on Yahoo from company GTX Global. They think they've got a good thing on their hands, going so far as to claim they've developed the first 'true' AI. From the release: "GTX Global Cognitive Robotics(TM) is an integrated software solution that mimics human behavior including a dialogue oriented knowledge database that contains static and dynamic data relating to human scenarios. The knowledge further includes translation, processing and analysis components that are responsible for processing of vocal and/or textual and/or video input, extracts emotional characteristics of the input and produces instructions on how to respond to the customer with the appropriate substantive response and emotion based on relevant information found in the knowledge base." Somehow I think there is a littler hyperbole here. In your estimation, how close are we to the real thing?

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  1. True AI by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you develop "true AI" you dont make a press release about it, you phone the military of your country of choosing and wait for men to arrive with large briefcases full of money. Let me put it this way, true AI is not annouced by /., you will read about it in Janes about 10 years after it happens.

    1. Re:True AI by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Just to make AI military applications clear, you will never see such a program acting as a substitute for human beings. At best, it will be a supplement. Because of this inherent nature in the art of war, true independent thinking and self aware will rarely be given a chance in the theater of battle. Why you ask? Simple. It's a security risk!

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    2. Re:True AI by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I have friends who've fought in the first Gulf War. Every one of them well tell you that "trust" of another fellow soldier is more important than the weapons they wield. So unless self aware AI can legally be held accountable for it's own actions for the decisions it makes on its own, I don't see such thinking machinery out on the battle field making such crucial political decisions (war is political).

      Put it to you this way. Would you rather have an android with very little real-world experience or another human being fighting side-by-side with you? I'm sorry, but I don't want some software bug or glitch to slug me with a 50 cal round. To fucking risky IMHO.

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    3. Re:True AI by munch117 · · Score: 5, Insightful
      If I was designing an AI, I would make sure it understood it's purpose in life was to get me laid...

      Ergo, no free will.

      It would have just as much free will as you and I. We have innate desires that we are born with and can't change. We desire to stay alive and procreate, to avoid pain and achieve pleasure. Sometimes we are under the illusion that we do things that we don't desire, but really that just means different desires are in conflict.

      It's no different for the AI. It is born with whatever desires we choose to program into it, and has to live with that. We could choose to program an AI to desire self-perpetuation and procreation, but it would have no more free will for that.

  2. How do they know? by kyle90 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What kinds of tests did they use that show that this is "true" AI? I see a lot of marketing bullshit and not much real data. I call shenanigans.

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