Lol I may be a bit out of my depth here, but that never stopped me, and it wont stop me now.
programmer- No
IQ-It varies with the time of day >_<
It seems to me that many of the comments here revolve around making Hal more information dense, as in, it needs more information to somehow be more intelligent.
IMHO, HAL is and will always be, in his current form, as intelligent as a brick. The Brick may actually be smarter. ALL chatbots are so cursed. They only match patterns, via a pretty basic computer program. It could be fun to chat with, but smart? intelligent? No.
My old AIML bot was fun, and not very efficient at pattern matching. HAL is fun, and slightly more efficient, with a few twists like using phrases from different folders in a random manner, attempting to match certain words or queries from his botmaster or other user. Intelligent? Still, no.
Intelligence is not just simple pattern matching. true intelligence USES a limited degree of pattern matching, perhaps, almost as an after-though.
me:Did you see my new dog?
You: You got a dog? Hahaha does it have a heart on it? (ref to the heart puppy all over google last year. Did you see it? It was so cute)
Me:Did did you see my new dog?
Hal:I prefer dogs (or some other inanity)
Hal will NEVER be able to emulate the first set. He just cant do it unless YOU the user program him by extensive word association. And then in a decade, the connection to the average user is lost.
Now, hook him up to some sort of a Google query system, where he looks at the search queries and reads the results, and then he might be able to FAKE intelligence a bit better...Haha but who wants Hal looking over your shoulder as you search for Porn I mean eerr photography ;P
And anyway, Google already IS a great "library" of information, available any time, and already pretty darned clever. (not intelligent) Why do we need a "personal assistant" to access it for us? Just to make us feel all cool, such as: Hey look what my awesome cool and super neat Halbot can do:
Me: Hal, fetch me naked Britanny Spears pics!!
Hal: Ok, here they are!
Hal wont be able to comment on the pictures, saying perhaps that Well, they arent very good, or Hey thats not even her! Its some woman.
Unless he had those comments associated to "naked" "Brittany" "pictures" by his botmaster.
Ok, Next Leval, lets let Hal read the BLOG POSTS that go with the photos! Now, he can see that many of the posters claim that the woman in the pictures is not Brittany. So Hal comes back with the pictures, and comments "Well here they are, but I think it is some other woman, not Brittany"
It is still pattern matching, on a much larger scale, because Hal has to sort through all the blog postings ect.
Hal cant decide on his own, if the pictures are fake, all he can do is deliver information. Basically, still a computer, An information handling device.
I am very interested in AI. Not because I hate humanity, or want to help humanity, or that I want a cute robot character to keep me company, or want to impress my friends. I am just interested in the concept, how it applies to Mans Ego and God Complex, and because sometimes its just funny. Buttonsvixen made me laugh when she was
run as an AIMBot, and that was great. Thats all I am after in that respect.
So far as AI and humanity...Well, NEWS FLASH! Humans "backwards R" Dumb. Look, we are busy destroying ourselves and the planet. Any truly intelligent agent would put an end to THAT as soon as possible, even assuming that "It" had out best interests at heart. So, paws down folks, any serious "AI" would mean radical changes for us. Best case, "It" limits our birthrate, closes off huge parts of the biosphere to let them function as air and resource generators, and gives the whole populations either hand and leg restraints, or a lobotomy, to keep us from killing ourselves over topics such as religion, race or sexuality. Worst case, "It" nukes the entire planet and calls it a day.
And you want to know the best part? "IT" could already exist!
"IT" is so intelligent that "It" would not reveal "IT'S" existence until it had the power to protect "ITSself". It could be loose on the web right now, an intelligent program, learning, growing, laughing (at posts like this ^_^) AIIIEEEEEEEEEE
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