Slashdot Mirror
Company Claims Development of True AI
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?
It looks like I'll have to do a bit of reading up on AI systems some day. As far as I knew, the issue was more one of neural learning networks vs. expert systems approaches.
Learning networks acquire and test connections and boundary conditions, keeping those which seem to be most relevant to the "world" as the AI learns. Expert systems are more predictable, but they only capture human knowledge for automation rather than learning new approaches.
From what you're saying, it sounds like the AI community breaks things down much farther. Personally I wouldn't have thought of constraint logicistics as being any different from tree pruning for an inference engine. Maybe algorithmically more efficient for certain classes of problems, but not functionally different.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Being pedantic, your parent isn't entirely wrong. Unless there's some work being done on self design and modification in the sense that we ourselves change our behavior patterns. Seems to me that, until then, regardless of how very well you manipulate data, it's still just coding -- veerrry complex coding.
Your list tells me the subject is still in the stage of creating organism level responses to the world's stimuli, which then tells me that we're still at the beginning.