Alexandr Gamezo

Talos of Crete Galatea of Pygmalion Frankenstein

Field began in 1956 at Dartmouth College “Fathers” of the field were John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, and Herbert Simon The field saw waves of interest. First peak was in the 1960s. US DoD heavily funded research 1980s saw a peak due to development of Expert Systems.

In the 1990’s and early 21 st century, AI was integrated into many fields throughout the technology industry Logistics Data Mining Medical Diagnosis Aided by the huge leap in computational power and the emphasis of the field on solving specific problems

No universally accepted definition Some generally accepted requirements are: Deduction, reasoning Planning Learning Perception Social Intelligence Creativity

Computers have many of the traits that are required for “intelligence” Computers can reproduce any human logical reasoning Computers can plan paths to solutions given enough information Computers can be made to learn and alter their own programming to incorporate that Kismet is a robot at MIT that has been made to show and understand emotion and body language Furbies

Will we recognize the intelligence of a synthetic life when we see/develop it? Turing Test is only current test of Artificial Intelligence Compare “knowledge” with a person in another country Ray Kurzweil estimates that by 2029 desktop computers will have same power as human brains and by 2045 computers will improve themselves faster than we ever could

Developers may not see their software as sentient beings Fully self-aware beings could be “deleted” simply due to not being convincingly “human” Just how intelligent is intelligent?

How will we detect intelligence in something that could be vastly different from our own intelligence? What position will synthetic intelligence have in our society? Will they be our new slave labor? Will they be our allies and assistants? How and will they be made docile toward people? Research into this should be at least parallel with actual development of AI.

Technology is close to fulfilling the dream of an actual synthetic intelligence We have no real method of testing that intelligence We must find answers to some very basic ethical questions before we continue to play God