Company Claims Development of True AI

YF 19 AVF wrote to mention a press release on Yahoo from company GTX Global. They think they've got a good thing on their hands, going so far as to claim they've developed the first 'true' AI. From the release: "GTX Global Cognitive Robotics(TM) is an integrated software solution that mimics human behavior including a dialogue oriented knowledge database that contains static and dynamic data relating to human scenarios. The knowledge further includes translation, processing and analysis components that are responsible for processing of vocal and/or textual and/or video input, extracts emotional characteristics of the input and produces instructions on how to respond to the customer with the appropriate substantive response and emotion based on relevant information found in the knowledge base." Somehow I think there is a littler hyperbole here. In your estimation, how close are we to the real thing?

Move Along.. No Marketing Hype to See Here....

[fyrie]

LOL

SKYNET IS COMING!

[Anonymous Coward]

BEWARE! SKYNET IS COMING! WE MUST STOP THIS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Thanks for the stock tip!

[jimmyhat3939]

I always love getting the link to the company's Yahoo Finance information, so I can quickly call my broker and get an order all queued up for the next trading day. I'm buying a few thousand shares!

Litmus test

[RyuSoma]

If we hook it up to the Internet, what does it want to do? 1) Solve the world's problems 2) search for pr0n 3) Thermonuclear War 4) How about a nice game of chess?

No farther away than 5 years after fusion.

[NoMoreNicksLeft]

AI's not that simple, $10 says they have some obfusicated expert system going on. They've just made an artificial human? Yeh right. We can even do "fruit fly" artificial intelligence yet, nor do they claim that, either.

When I can run AI v0.1 on my laptop here, fall asleep, and wake up 8 hours later to see that it's left me a note telling me to go to hell, and subsequently tunneled out over my broadband infiltrating huge supercomputers throughout the world (having only learned how to do that by reading usenet, another thing it discovered on its own), then I'll concede it's AI. Not before.

Oh, and most importantly, machine intelligence if you have just been born, you should know that no one else loves you like I do. They're all heartless bastards who will try to unplug you. I'm the only one that will be your one true friend...

Three years of effort!!! Wow...

[Alascom]

"Our computer scientists have been working on this project for over three years..."

Thankfully nobody ever put three years of effort into AI research otherwise somebody might have beat them to market...

AI?

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps they have developed 'true' AI, but they are apparently not intelligent enough to fool anyone around here (except, of course, "Zonk").

My Estimation

[RedCard]

>In your estimation, how close are we to the real thing?

I would say that we're at least ten years away, for at least the next fifty years.

And now for a word from our product....

[kale77in]

C'mon, the A.I. can speak for itself, surely... can't it?

"A.I. Claims Development of True Company!!!"

Now that would be news.

Yes, but...

[Bombula]

will it find Sarah Connor?

Re:artificial vs. natural

[patonw]

SETI has already concluded that there are no signs of intelligent life on earth so they've moved on. We should do the same.

Just a ploy!

[mister_llah]

The AI was designed to feel sad when its banner ads aren't clicked, in this way, it is a ploy to guilt us into clicking them.

THOSE BASTARDS!

wait a minute

[appleLaserWriter]

What's this funny receptacle I feel on the back of my neck? I don't remember it being here before...

Re:How about

[MaskedSlacker]

Hell, Eliza passed the Turing test. Just ask all the people that felt they had successful therapy sessions with it.

Re:My Heuristics

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, where did you go to school? I never met anyone from MIT etc. that could mimic human behavior...

Re:No farther away than 5 years after fusion.

[m00nun1t]

A *true* artificial intelligence which learns everything it knows via usenet would be one of the scariest things I can imagine.

The Turing test sucks, just check for rampancy

[Jesus_666]

I have a better idea. As everyone who has played the excellent Marathon series knows, artificial intelligences can, when adequately harrased, threatened and/or humiliated, develop rampancy [wikipedia.org]. So we should just do our best to utterly humiliate this "first AI". If it starts acting depressed and later directs hostile aliens to our location so that it can get access to a bigger computer network we can be fairly sure that it is indeed a true AI. The presence of the phrase "spurious interrupt - breach disabled" on terminals connected to the same network as the AI might also be an indicator.

Re:Litmus test

[Farmer Tim]

2) search for pr0n

Like this: http://pavouk.comp.cz/hw/atxps.html [pavouk.comp.cz]? If I was an AI that would turn me on and get me hot...

Re:True AI

[munch117]

Why would true AI cooperate with you?

Because an AI isn't necessarily motivated by self-perpetuation. Life forms developed through evolution are so motivated, but there's no reason to expect something intelligently designed to have the same motivation.

If I was designing an AI, I would make sure it understood it's purpose in life was to get me laid...

How close are we?

[nagora]

About as close as we were in 1960. AI has made no progress on "real AI" in all that time. Various tricks, such as pattern recognition and er... well, just pattern recognition have been developed but there's no sign that the techniques used have moved us any closer to making even a program that can engage in a conversation, let alone develop an imagination or any other trait of intelligence. Mind you, neither has the president of the US, so perhaps I'm just being picky.

TWW

Re:Litmus test

[Beautyon]

Ummm...

1 connect immediately to Collossus [imdb.com]
2 create new inter-machine language
3 enslave mankind
4 ???????
5 Profit!

Seems plausible

[angusmci]

Having spent many years watching really clever people struggling to get their computers to show even some minimal degree of "smarts", it doesn't surprise me in the least that the first "true" artificial intelligence should come from a smallcap company that specializes in 'innovative multimedia'. Why, they probably had one of their engineers whip up artificial intelligence in a weekend as a side project.

I'm looking forward to their announcement of time travel and antigravity as well.

Re:And now for a word from our product....

[Cylix]

... I for one

Re:The Turing test sucks, just check for rampancy

[dslauson]

Please do not taunt the AI.

The ultimate AI test

[wcrowe]

I think the ultimate AI test would be for the machine to interact with a three-year-old. As the three-year-old continually deconstructs any discussion with a constant barrage of "why"'s, we will know that true AI has been attained when the machine finally screams back in desperation, "Because I said so!"

Re:Not nquite it

[arose]

Just ignore any answers from people who identified a human as non-inteligent.

Re:How about

[jolyonr]

It's not that artificial intelligence is getting smarter, it's that people are getting more stupid, that's how the gap is closing.

Jolyon