place it on the doorknob.Grip the doorknob.Turn the doorknob 45o radius.Stop.Pull the doorknob.Take one step back.Pull the doorknob.Release the doorknob.Etc.Etc.Well you get the picture.Even these instructions might be a little vague fro a robot to understand. If now the robot knows how to open the door, it wouldn’t know how to close the door. You would have to go through the same programming process of how to close a door. In other words every tasks which is done by a robot is do to its programming. A robot cannot deviate from its program. Some bosses would love to have employees like this, but like the saying goes “Be careful what you wish for”.When we speak about Artificial Intelligence, we are talking about computers that act and think like people. You might say that should be simple, but it’s not. Until now computers do as there program instructs them to do. If you program a computer to add 1 + 1 equal 3, that’s what the answer will equal to all the time for as long as the program stays the same. Not until you change the program will 1 + 1 not equal 3. The computer cannot go and find the information for itself.Computers cannot do more than one thing at a time. It could have hundreds of programs to do different task, but it could only do one task at a time. Unlike the human brain which could process more than one thing at a time.In addition, computers cannot learn on their own. As I said before computers only do what its program allows it to do. When engineers try to design Artificial Intelligence, I believe that this is where the break through is beginning.There is an attractive similarity between computers and humans. It is almost impossible to resist the temptation to compare a CPU and memory to the human brain and I/O devices to our senses. Information flows into our memory through sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Our brain remembers the information, decides to take action, and send commands ...
