Artificial Intelligence

We watched this video in my Management Information Systems class last week about how far we have come in Artificial Intelligence. So far we have machines that are called at the level of expert systems. What this means is that they are programmed a setup of basic rules and knowledge, and then based on certain scenarios they make their own decisions. So although they are making their own decisions, they aren't quite thinking on their own because they are still working based off how they are programmed.

From here they talked about the future. In the future, not so far away, they think they will be developing technology of having robots think for themselves. Now, they are marketing about this in regards that there is a great fear that once the bots think for themselves, just like in all the futuristic science fiction movies, they could turn against the humans. Now, I felt that this was very prominent and morally strong of this company to come out and discuss this fear and how they are trying and spending billions of dollars alone just on this aspect in preventing it from ever happening.

Do you think we will eventually have robots that can think on their own? If so, do you think that they will turn against us at one point, just like in say the movie iRobot? Me personally, I think we will have these robots and at some point they will turn against us.