Quote from: BitMos on November 22, 2014, 07:55:33 AM

The more you post online, the more the AIs learn about yourself and what you think. When will my AI be trained enough to take the fight on by itself? Then between our AI each one representing one, will discuss (fight) until one opinion is factually winning, and have to make the other algo surrender... it will be fun. Imagine the poor barack ai Cheesy

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First off, AI is as intelligent, and intricate, as a human coder wants it to be, and designs it to be.

In other words, a code, which becomes self aware, and acts in its own interests will only exist if a human designs that.

It will NEVER come to exist on its own, and it will never come to exist by mistake.

Now, with that out of the way, what kind of AI are you looking for?

General AI?

Chinese Room AI?

The Singularity (Strong AI)? (2:14 am Eastern Time on August 29th, 1997) "Terminator type"

The human brain doesn't need to build a smarter brain. It just needs to build something of equivalent smartness (which should be theoretically possible, there's no reason to believe the human brain is the upper bound for all generalised reasoning ability) on a substrate like silicon which is subject to Moore's Law (and thus gets inherently faster with time) and which is immortal and duplicable.

Build 1 functioning brain in silicon, and:

- 18 months later you can build one that's twice as fast using the same principles

- duplicate this brain and get the power of multiple people thinking together (but with greater bandwidth between them than any human group)

- run this brain for 100 years and get an older intellectually functioning human than has ever existed before

- duplicate whatever learning this brain has accumulated over 100 years (which, say, brings to the level of an Einstein) as many times as you have physical resources for (so, clone Einstein)
All those are paths to super-human AI from the production of a human-intelligence brain in a non-biological form.

So, if a human brain can make a computer brain, which is a reasonable assumption, then a human brain can make a brain smarter than itself.

Building a human brain in a non-biological substrate is not a miracle. It would be a miracle in the same way that transistors and penicillin are, not in the way that Jesus' resurrection is. I.e., a fantastic, happy, unlikely but possible event that will change the world for the better.

We know that human brains can be built in some way: we have the evidence for that claim inside billions of skulls. The question is then not to push the theoretical boundaries of computational capability beyond some theoretical level - but merely to achieve it again artificially.