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vienna · 08-01-17, 04:09 AM

The prospect of AI taking on more humanoid characteristics was the subject of a CBS News: On Assignment segment Monday night, where the development and use in Japan of AI robotics is on the rise as a solution to that nation's dwindling population. Japan is an unusually homogeneous nation with a very low percentage of non-Japanese population and a very low tolerance for outside, long-term, immigration, so the nation is seeking ways to shore up the need for unskilled labor through AI robotics:

A postscript to the above segment is on this supplemental video starting at about 6:40:

This is a link to the PBS NOVA documentary on the appearance of the IBM AI system WATSON on the quiz show Jeopardy, which Watson won, beating the two human all-time best champions:

It is important to keep in mind WATSON, in the Jeopardy competition, was wholly self-contained: it was not hooked up to the Internet, nor were any humans or other apparatus rendering any assistance to the machine; it could only draw upon and analyze data stored in its approximately 13 terabytes of storage. The fact WATSON was also capable of making errors in its analyses and the manner in which those errors derived in a way makes it somehow eerily 'human'...

"The Machine" in Person Of Interest was a self-contained impenetrable 'black box', self-annealing and capable of modifying and patching its own core code as needed, but it was also capable of drawing data from the Net and from all electronic forms of communication and surveillance. It may seem a bit far fetched and very 'sci-fi', but the Jeopardy challenge was only six years ago and WATSON is currently being hailed as nearing a cure for cancer, among other accomplishments. This is astonishing when you consider that little more than 35 or so years ago, a Texas university was conducting an 'advanced' AI experiment where a room full of mini-mainframes were linked together to form a 'brain' and tasked with learning; the results were sometimes amusing when it used syllogistic reasoning to deduce answers such as when the 'brain' asked the researcher who was Abraham Lincoln; the researchers respond "Lincoln was a US President"; the 'brain' then started to call all humans "President" because Lincoln was President, Lincoln was human, therefore all humans are Presidents...

The Texas researchers, the last I heard a couple of decades or so ago, managed to get their creation up to the level of a 3-5 year old child, impressive until you consider an intelligent parrot or dolphin is also at that level...

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,720 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	The prospect of AI taking on more humanoid characteristics was the subject of a CBS News: On Assignment segment Monday night, where the development and use in Japan of AI robotics is on the rise as a solution to that nation's dwindling population. Japan is an unusually homogeneous nation with a very low percentage of non-Japanese population and a very low tolerance for outside, long-term, immigration, so the nation is seeking ways to shore up the need for unskilled labor through AI robotics: A postscript to the above segment is on this supplemental video starting at about 6:40: This is a link to the PBS NOVA documentary on the appearance of the IBM AI system WATSON on the quiz show Jeopardy, which Watson won, beating the two human all-time best champions: It is important to keep in mind WATSON, in the Jeopardy competition, was wholly self-contained: it was not hooked up to the Internet, nor were any humans or other apparatus rendering any assistance to the machine; it could only draw upon and analyze data stored in its approximately 13 terabytes of storage. The fact WATSON was also capable of making errors in its analyses and the manner in which those errors derived in a way makes it somehow eerily 'human'... "The Machine" in Person Of Interest was a self-contained impenetrable 'black box', self-annealing and capable of modifying and patching its own core code as needed, but it was also capable of drawing data from the Net and from all electronic forms of communication and surveillance. It may seem a bit far fetched and very 'sci-fi', but the Jeopardy challenge was only six years ago and WATSON is currently being hailed as nearing a cure for cancer, among other accomplishments. This is astonishing when you consider that little more than 35 or so years ago, a Texas university was conducting an 'advanced' AI experiment where a room full of mini-mainframes were linked together to form a 'brain' and tasked with learning; the results were sometimes amusing when it used syllogistic reasoning to deduce answers such as when the 'brain' asked the researcher who was Abraham Lincoln; the researchers respond "Lincoln was a US President"; the 'brain' then started to call all humans "President" because Lincoln was President, Lincoln was human, therefore all humans are Presidents... The Texas researchers, the last I heard a couple of decades or so ago, managed to get their creation up to the level of a 3-5 year old child, impressive until you consider an intelligent parrot or dolphin is also at that level... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __ Last edited by vienna; 08-01-17 at 07:20 AM.