• Question: do you think artificial intelligence will exist?

    Asked by 362gdna42 to Arthur, Clare, Daniel, David, Tora on 10 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Daniel Parsons

      Daniel Parsons answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      Yes. I sometimes think my iPhone is more intelligent than me already – especially when it remembers my wife’s birthday! and I always lose to the computer at Pro-evolution and FIFA14!

      More seriously, some aspects of AI already do exist, but this is a massive area of science that is in its infancy.But the future looks promising for AI. For example, many think that win 15 to 20 years our desktop PC’s will be more powerful than our brains and by 2050 computers will learn from computers…

      Stephen Hawking’s once said that developing AI would be humans greatest achievement, he also warned it could be our last!

    • Photo: Arthur Dyer

      Arthur Dyer answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      There was a really really awesome scientist called Alan Turing who was alive during the second world war and he created a test for Artificial Intelligence.

      He said that if a group of people each talk to a computer and enough of them don’t realise it’s not a human then it will have passed and can be considered proper Artificially Intelligent. Every single year people get together to try and pass this test and we’re really close but not quite there.

      There’s a film that is going to come out next week about Alan Turing (who also solved the Enigma Code and helped us to win world war 2) called “the imitation game” about this exact topic which you might want to go see!

      I’m going to watch it at the cinema soon and can’t wait!

    • Photo: Clare Harding

      Clare Harding answered on 10 Nov 2014:

      I hope so!

      I think once we get to the stage of having programmes which can write more complicated progammes perhaps we can get computers to create AI!

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