Some interesting observations and some good points as well.
Discussions regarding what AI is and what it is not have been going on for decades but the underlying fact is that despite the computational power, the program will always be just that...a program.
While said program might have the ability to scan thousands of patterns, IF-THEN's, What-if's and so on in a few seconds or nanoseconds, the basic premise will remain the same.
Artificial = not real, imagined, pretending to be real, pseudo.
The future holds as many questions as it does answers. If humans create an "intelligent" being will it have rights or entitlements? If disconnected or destroyed would it be tantamount to murder?
Sure Hollywood has glorified AI through movies like AI, Bi-Centennial Man, Matrix and many more yet we continue to watch and think and dream. Can something or rather some cybertronic brain be developed that would allow the AI / program . robot to think on its own, have the equivalent of emotions, reason, understanding, sympathy, compassion, self analysis / repair, aware state? (I left out the undersirable traits like greed, jealousy, lust, anger, etc.) - Let's hope the designers do likewise!
For now there is no right or wrong approach to AI as no real standards for learning or brain building have been established. No artificial brain that can create its own thoughts save from logic, have been developed.
Scripted bots using AIML do not learn, they merely do the search and find patterns or previously written scripts.
A good AI brain must be given all the senses that humans possess in order to learn how to deal with them and in what manner they are to be used.
Yes, the future is still a long way off but as a man once said...It's the journey, not the destination that counts!!
