Thursday, November 13, 2008
Reflection on Dr. Riehemann Speech
The speech that Dr. Riehemann gave was very interesting. It definitely made me think about what intelligence really is. Once we started talking about what intelligence would be considered, I really think intelligence would have to include emotions and humor. Showing emotion and having passion for something and to grow in learn, instead of being programed like a robot would be. So I wouldn't consider a robot intelligent until these features are reached. Humor and emotions would definitely be something that would be a key for me to be consider intelligent.
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I agree with Rachel. I think the speech was very interesting. It never really occurred to me how much could be used regarding intelligence and how complex it can be. However, I do think it is important for a robot to express emotion and create this type of language in order to define this as "intelligent" thinking. I think robots can be programmed to repeat activites and be sort of slave-like, but as technology advances, I do think that humans will be able to develop a robot that has the same intelligent thinking as we do.
I also agree with Rachel and Tricia. The idea that robots can be created to be able to uncover unknown codes is incredible. However, the only thing I don't quite understand is how can humans make robots that are smarter then themselves? Is it possible to make robots know more than humans? If this is possible, why give them this power over us. I am just worried that if this is possible what will restrict or limit the robots. Yes i think that humans should try to devolop some kind of robot, just that it needs to be done with caution.
I agree with all of you as well. Although we touched on a lot of amazing things that a robot can be programmed to do, we need to remember that the key word there is "programmed". They will never be able to be considered as "intelligent" because even if we were to someday program robots to have feelings and emotions, they are still programmed. They (the robots) are not feeling those emotions by themselvs. Had they not been programmed by its maker to feel a cold temperature or to be sad they would not feel anything at all. it once again proves that we as humans are the only ones who can truly carry and pocess intelligence and we the humans can pass along that intelligence to a robot but only by programming the robot to do those certain things.
Yes the speech was very interesting and we I thought Dr.Riehemann did a very nice job of giving us the understanding of what goes into creating such a robot. It sounded to me that it was all based around his programing of the robot. The thought of AI existing is interesting. I believe that it could benefit us or could possible hurt us.
I really enjoyed Dr. Riehemanns speech about AI. But i think it almost seems impossible to create some kind of technology that can think on it's own and hold an intelligent conversation. I believe the idea would be very cool, but then think of how much more lazy humans would get! Think of how less intelligent we will become. We would have something right there to do our thinking for us. It reminds me of times when i am writing a paper on word and it automatically spells the word correctly if i miss spelled it. I feel like i'm losing my intelligence on how to spell words. But i don't have any motivation to learn how to spell the word because i have something that can do it for me.
I find it hard to tell what a human is made up of. i would agree and say that it is essential that one would need emotion(humor or laughter and the ability to tell a joke)and be able to have a sense of belonging. humans are able to rationalize and are able to ask questions like where did i come from and how did i get here. these type of questions make us human and it seems that robots and all other living things dont ahve these qualities. animals are not concerned with death, only humans.
Personally I don’t think it will happen. How can two separate machines come up with a system of communication? The way human learn is by seeing hearing smelling touching and tasting. If you don’t have any of these senses there no way you can learn. Humans usually learn because it a need for them to learn or they have a goal for learning. So I did see where he was going with the idea to program them a task to solve together. But I can’t see them making a way to communicate with each other.
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