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Give it a load of answers to start off with, then when the human asks it something it doesn't know the answer to, make it say "I do not understand" and then later on ask the same question to the human and add its answer to the list of things it says.

ah, having a program that answers with a inbuilt set of replies is not artificially intelligent.

Learning AIs are definitely possible. But they'd be difficult to write.

My Art teacher told me of a program that sort of wrote itself. It would be a seed, and it would add onto it's code until it became a gargantuan computer-written program. I think that's brilliant, but I wouldn't know where to start writing it 

I was discussing AI in another thread and I came up with this definition:

something is AI when it...

1) is able to react in some way to any situation presented to it (even if that reaction is merely to observe it)

2) Is able to learn from past experience and put the information to use. (touching this object hurt me last time, don't do it again)

3) Is able to react to any stimuli in it's enviroment in a way that benifits it (e.g. avoids it's "health" dropping, trys not to break, do something that gets it food or power etc.)

AI does not have to:

1) communicate with humans (though a way to show what it's doing is useful)

2) use all the infomation it stores (we don't  )

these are just my defining points, perhapse we ought to start this thread by coming up with a list that defines AI, otherwise this will be alot harder. Feel free to edit, add or remove items (though explain why you did) 

ScratchReallyROCKS wrote:

coolstuff wrote:

Learning AIs are definitely possible. But they'd be difficult to write.

My Art teacher told me of a program that sort of wrote itself. It would be a seed, and it would add onto it's code until it became a gargantuan computer-written program. I think that's brilliant, but I wouldn't know where to start writing it 

That's cool! I bet you could do something like that in BYOB...

Yeah! You want to make it? 

I find the prospect of AI fascinating. The fact that 0s and 1s can do so much never fails to impress me!

You know researchers across the globe are attempting this, and have yet to truly suceed... we're not going to manage it any time soon    however, we can have a go 

sep, you have to remember that our brains work at least partly in 1s and 0s 

SeptimusHeap wrote:

I developed a sort of 'advanced' learning AI in Panther, not one that uses human used phrases at any time, that uses phrases at the appropriate times.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7681/scripts.gif

nice dude

sorry guys, but you're all going on about a project that can answer questions that are asked of it, but that's not really intelligent is it? it's not learning new answers by itself, and if you asked "have you got a name", you could tell it what this means, but it would not be able to use what it learnt from that to work out the answer to "have you got a dog". It does not understand the grammar of meaning of what we are giving it, it is merely storing answers to questions that it can retrieve and use if that EXACT question reappears...

sparks wrote:

sorry guys, but you're all going on about a project that can answer questions that are asked of it, but that's not really intelligent is it? it's not learning new answers by itself, and if you asked "have you got a name", you could tell it what this means, but it would not be able to use what it learnt from that to work out the answer to "have you got a dog". It does not understand the grammar of meaning of what we are giving it, it is merely storing answers to questions that it can retrieve and use if that EXACT question reappears...

Did you read my first post?

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Here I go again. Ill have a go at a Scratch sprite to forfill some of your needs.

Harakou wrote:

Of course, does anyone really want to make a true AI? *cough* terminator *cough* 

Hmm, I think terminator is very fictional. Robotics and programming is years away from anything like that, and it may never be possible at all. You also have to bear in mind that world domination of machines is unlikely. I feel that scifi films like those create unecessary fears and illusions in the general public about robotics.

Also, you can argue that something like, say, a sparrow or lizard are intelligent, I certainly believe they are, and thy manage to do so without the need for complex language or abstract thought.

helltank wrote:

Alright, we currently cannot create a learning AI, because to do that you would need to simulate the human brain. HOWEVER, we can create a simulated learning AI, which APPEARS to be intelligent but isn't. If you can create a true learning AI on Scratch, you'll have fame, fortune, and you're a genius.

What will you give me if I do it?