Mike_Yates
Literotica's Anti-Hero
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I recently watched the "short circuit" films which were made in the 1980's about a military robot that is struck by lightning and then assumes human-like characteristics. I would like to point out the inherent flaws and problems with these films.
How was it possible for the "Jonny Five" robot to possess human-level intelligence, emotions, and be fully self-aware given the technological limitations of the 1980's?
Scientists have hypothesized that sentient and conscious machines are still 60-70 years away technologically. This concept is known as the "singularity", when computer AI surpasses the abilities of biological human beings.
From what I can ascertain, the Johnny 5 robot's computer circuitry did not possess any kind of artificial neural network, and certainly not one advanced enough to synthesize human-level intellect, emotions, and self-awareness.
Nothing even remotely like this exists today and probably won't until shortly before/after the end of this century, let alone during the 1980's.
Furthermore, the computer hardware capable of simulating a strong AI (which still does not exist) would require hundreds of acres of land, tens upon tens of thousands of liquid-cooled topological quantum computing processor cores, gigantic cooling towers, require 24/7 maintenance, and would consume several hundred megawatts of electricity.
Quantum computing (the key to creating a strong AI) is still in it's infancy and will not be perfected in the foreseeable future. You also have to completely reverse-engineer and understand the incomprehensibly complex workings the human brain to it's 100% entirety, and then figure out how to synthesize every last and single bit of neuronal activity into a computer system, which would require an almost godlike understanding of neuroscience.
The human brain is the single most complex object known to science.
Some scientists and leading neuroscience experts argue that the singularity will never happen because consciousness itself is the result of unpredictable, nonlinear interactions among billions of cells and one quadrillion synapses. It cannot be computed, PERIOD.
What I wrote in the above paragraphs is based on hypothetical 22nd century science and technology.
This film was fundamentally flawed on every level.
Terrible!
I recently watched the "short circuit" films which were made in the 1980's about a military robot that is struck by lightning and then assumes human-like characteristics. I would like to point out the inherent flaws and problems with these films.
How was it possible for the "Jonny Five" robot to possess human-level intelligence, emotions, and be fully self-aware given the technological limitations of the 1980's?
Scientists have hypothesized that sentient and conscious machines are still 60-70 years away technologically. This concept is known as the "singularity", when computer AI surpasses the abilities of biological human beings.
From what I can ascertain, the Johnny 5 robot's computer circuitry did not possess any kind of artificial neural network, and certainly not one advanced enough to synthesize human-level intellect, emotions, and self-awareness.
Nothing even remotely like this exists today and probably won't until shortly before/after the end of this century, let alone during the 1980's.
Furthermore, the computer hardware capable of simulating a strong AI (which still does not exist) would require hundreds of acres of land, tens upon tens of thousands of liquid-cooled topological quantum computing processor cores, gigantic cooling towers, require 24/7 maintenance, and would consume several hundred megawatts of electricity.
Quantum computing (the key to creating a strong AI) is still in it's infancy and will not be perfected in the foreseeable future. You also have to completely reverse-engineer and understand the incomprehensibly complex workings the human brain to it's 100% entirety, and then figure out how to synthesize every last and single bit of neuronal activity into a computer system, which would require an almost godlike understanding of neuroscience.
The human brain is the single most complex object known to science.
Some scientists and leading neuroscience experts argue that the singularity will never happen because consciousness itself is the result of unpredictable, nonlinear interactions among billions of cells and one quadrillion synapses. It cannot be computed, PERIOD.
What I wrote in the above paragraphs is based on hypothetical 22nd century science and technology.
This film was fundamentally flawed on every level.
Terrible!
