Since the first software we dared to call Artificially Intelligent, we've been talking about simulating human behavior and patterns. In other words, we were able to copy human behavior using lines of code, algorithms, cameras and math.
It was cute, it became practical and now these bits of code and even machines are integrated into our society either in very visible ways (computer opponents in games) or very subtle ways (predictive software for the stock market or Google's Search engine).
Fast forward to today's research and the tech industry's surge to develop more and more intelligent applications of our artificial intelligent expertise. We are developing and commercializing artificial intelligence able to:
- Reliably detect human emotions
- Reliably detect conversation tone of voice
- Understand language and even translate it
- Learn from practice and get better at what they do over time
- Understand human patterns of behavior in order to sympathize or compete against humans.
Those sound like the patterns of intelligence of a growing and learning child to me. Doesn't it?
In the video here, I talk a little bit more about this idea if you wish to go deeper:
In any case, seems to me that we are passed the theoretical science fiction idea of possibly machines eventually becoming our friends, partners and colleagues. Once we are able to properly roll out artificial intelligence that is capable of interacting with humans on the emotional intelligence level, we can make some that people can get attached to.
How would you feel if your computer OS would understand speech of any major language, detect your emotional state, understand your posture and tone of voice, and even learn your patterns without having full information (imperfect information problem solving skills), and do as you ask taking all that into account faster than any human can?
That, my friends, is an aware, sensitive, high performance work colleague.... or the AI colleague 5 years from now.
When are we going to start thinking of AI more along the lines of Synthetic Humans (or Synthetic life) versus the current ideology of seeing them as Simulated Humans?
If it looks like a duck, quack likes a duck, and is a better duck than an actual duck....
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