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Originally Posted by rkomar
Well, it seems that robots and AI for diagnosing problems and finding existing solutions are getting good enough that they may soon put a big chunk of the world out of work. If so, we'll see if the SciFi predictions of what society looks like in those conditions come close to reality.
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But that isn't AI.
At best, it is what the writers of the first MASS EFFECT game (Casey Hudson et al) termed *Virtual* Intelligence; a glorified database with an interactive verbal interface.
A true AI, like Heinlein's MYCROFT/MYCHELLE is a self-aware entity capable of analysis, learning, and creating, not just a collection of canned responses or even behaviors. That would still be useful in autonomous robots but is not AI. WATSON, for example, is one exquisite expert system built off a monster database and a great way to amplify human expertise and productivity but no substitute for an experienced human in making judgment calls. And even so, Watson is horribly expensive. Not a consumer product any time soon.
Now, there *is* work going on in areas that might someway lead there: neural networks and self-recoding software for starters. But nothing likely to be commercially viable anytime soon and certainly not something that can run on Raspberry Pi/Arduino class hardware.
One of the best looks I've seen in fiction into the question of what is truly AI was the recent EX MACHINA movie.
Most other SF concepts are clear cut engineering matters but AI veers deeply into philosophy and metaphysics. (Which is why it makes it so compelling it shows up everywhere: STAR TREK, BLADERUNNER, FALLOUT 4...
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