I can build an AI machine!!!!

From: Joe (jhelfand_at_umd.edu)
Date: 10/10/04 

Date: 10 Oct 2004 13:34:22 -0700

I have always been mildly fascinated and wondered about how to build
an AI machine, or at least one that looks like it has AI, one that for
example can fool the experts. This time, I think I found it, it
should work. Basically I have done some experiments in the lab, and
analyzed some theory, (I have some equations to back it up, but the
idea looks sound without them), and I am convinced I have a VERY good
working plan. Now let me tell you what I think my machine can do. I
think I'll be able to set you up in a terminal, in a room, and have it
connected with some other complicated electronic interface (which I
can build or aquire from another lab) to my machine. And then you
will be able to chat with it, typing on the computer and looking at
it's responses, and we'll see if you can determine whether it's a
"human" or not, once I program it and it teaches itself to act like
one (like even childhood memories, etc.). Furthermore, I see no
reason why I can't put you on the phone in one room, and build some
kind of complicated voice synthesizer, that mimicks the human voice, a
sound processor with advanced voice recognition capability inside my
machine, and you can talk to it live! Again a prize if you think it's
not human. The machine "voice" will even have tone inflection,
emotional quality, etc. I will be able to do all this once we program
it to do language. In fact, and this will be even more interesting,
me and the research team will be able to "anthropomorphisize" the
machine, give it a human like form, with arms, legs, face, etc. And
teach it/have it teach itself, to walk around like a human, so that
from the distance you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between
it and an android. In fact, maybe even at close distances this will
be hard. Like I can have it easily run around and kick a soccer ball,
exactly like a human, and I wonder if you'll be able to tell the
difference. And I can again offer prize to the person who thinks it's
not human. Because there must must be great preception here (and you
would be offered to explain your conclusions and we could evaluate how
you came to that conclusion). Finally, we will take this machine to
the greatest computer scientists, engineers, physicists, and
mathematicians of the world, or anybody who cares, who can figure out
how it works, and a prize to anyone who can figure out all the details
of what we did. (I know this will cause great debates among the
greats, like is it a Turing machine? Does gravity collapse the
wavefunctions, etc. All kinds of crazy ideas, because the experts
will be stumped of course. At least those who are interested.) Now,
I have done some experiments, and I see that this will work, but I
still need to get a hold of some additional equipment, for the
details. I can't quite do it myself. I am looking for people to
partner with me in this enterprise (admittedly, not a good job), to
experiment with the equipment and even build an AI machine. Or at
least a machine that looks like it has AI [see below]. Now funding is
limitted, in part because I want to keep my idea secret, and also in
part because I don't want my idea, the fruits of my labour, enslaved
to any corporate, government lab, etc. (Even though ultimately it
will, I'd like to stave off that possiblity for as long as possible.)
So it will take some hard work building, and financing, with our own
money, the machine. And yet for the love of life, it will be a great
enterprise!

Note: I know that when we build that machine, and if I claim it has
AI, there will be a great quibbling over words. FOr example, what is
AI? For example, just look at the web. However, if we say "behaves
like a human" this will get closer. But still I am convinced there
will be quibbling over words. So let me readress it to "look like it
has AI", this will fulfill even the greatest skeptics, the greatest
quibblers, and all will have to agree that the machine satisfies this.
 What do you think?

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