I have read an article in Digit magazine, the article was called “Artificial Idiots”, it was about why haven’t we reached the perfect artificial intelligence yet.
Maybe the right question to ask is “will we even reach the perfect AI?” What is the perfect “Artificial Intelligence” anyways? As the guy who wrote the article said that it would be the perfect AI when the “human” and the “machine” will be confused about each other which means that the “human” wouldn’t tell whither the “machine” is a real human or just a machine in real life!!!!!
Is it really the right question/answer? Is it even possible to do something like that? According to the answer if we want to create the perfect AI we will need to create something more likely to be an artificial human brain… as i believe that this is impossible for two main reasons:
1. We are not Gods to be able to create something close to a human brain let alone a human brain.
2. The human brain is too complex even we “humans” don’t know how it exactly works.

“If the human brain was so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
- Emerson M. Pugh

As I am a man of faith I am also a scientist, I am a computer scientist and one of the basic rules for making a successful program or software is to know what the user wants and make the software accordingly.

The AI that the writer of the article was talking about is a whole different thing. is to make the “machine” to simply response (reacts) according to the user’s move (like humans) Humans response to different actions by different means depending on time, place, emotions and other major events in life … we simply can’t code all of those things in machines because the possibilities are limitless. now, if any person has taken an Artificial Intelligence course like i did, will know that we can only make the machines to “act” intelligently but not “think” intelligently like humans in real life!! … but that is another story.

In my opinion the closest thing we will have to that perfect intelligence is by plugging a human brain to a machine. But we are so far from that, we are not able to “plug” (if I may say) a human brain to another human let alone to a machine, maybe it is easier to plug it with a machine ? But I don’t have the answer to that question but even if we were able to do so, it wouldn’t be “Artificial Intelligence” would it?

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