Visions of the Future 5

We do our calculations in a very similar way... electrical signals. robots move using electrical energy so do we. emotions are governed by chemistry, drugs are proof of that. our brain is a literal battery, more sodium on one side than the other makes electricity thats how we are "alive" robots are a repicate of ourselves. you cant have robots without us thats the biggest difference of all!

Even if robots would ever become "smart", they still wouldn't really be able to beat a human as far as I think. For 1 thing, no matter how complex a computer's system is-it is still a robot. It still does calculations; the only thing different is the amount of calculations per second. While a human, can truly be unpredictable-mainly because our capacity for Art and Creativity. One thing that robots can't ever really do better than us,since all their creativity is merely mathematic calculations.

you are basing this judgment on an assumption that robot hardware will forever continue in the same vein as current processors. Not only are there many other ways of implementing hardware learning systems which are only minimally programmed but actual neuron chips have been used as a basis for robot control. Yes rat neurons grown on a chip, then used by a robot to process sensor intput and navagate it's environment.

That's what I'm calling "smart", but not intelligent

Oh you just need to see some more examples of what can be done. For instance check out imagination-engines or
Read Kurzweil's "the age of spiritual machines".
Creativity is not merely in the domain of human brains. The previous post was to point out that your allusion to robots being "merely mathematical" was off base as well.(although I think if you knew the neuron completely you'd find math was sufficient to model it.

I've seen many examples actually. But flesh, neurons, mathematics-they all kinda go together. But we have those already, they're called animals. Radically Complex self-replicating organisms. last time I checked, they could barely construct the brain of an ant, which is less than a millimeter in size. A little bit sideoff, but aren't they like making special drod-cyborgs at Area 51? It's just something I've heard, but could be the connection between neurons and math-that they developed.

I would be the best dancer in my zoo.

If we developed a robot that was smarter than us it would build a spaceship so it could get the hell out of here before we kill ourselves along with it!

Does this happen on the individual level? Or is it a mass learning thing? Did you learn this way?

What you on about?