The concept that struck me as most interesting in Chapter 10 was the idea of Artificial Intelligence or the field that focuses on methods and technologies to emulate how humans learn and solve problems. When I read that at first it reminded me of a video I watched on YouTube called Shift Happens 3.0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8). In the video, it says that by 2013 a supercomputer will be built that exceeds the computational capabilities of the human brain and predictions are that by 2049, a $1000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. This fact really scares me! The fact that something that isn’t even human can be smarter than all of us combined is terrifying.
I decided to look more into AI and found an article about how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun a project to re-think artificial intelligence research. In the article, the author states that the Mind Machine Project will return to the basic to examine what lies behind human intelligence. The project will span five years and will bring together successful researchers in the field of AI. They hope to produce robotic companions smart enough to aid those suffering from dementia. Their plan is to go back to some of the assumptions made about AI when research first started and see if they can find any mistakes or blips. The ultimate is to “create a physical system that is smart enough to read a child's story book, understand the context surrounding that narrative and explain what happened.”
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8401349.stm)
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