Last week in new York hosted a conference on artificial intelligence, where Professor of Cybernetics Alexei Samsonovich Moscow National Research Nuclear University MEPhI said Sputnik News: “We are on the verge of a big breakthrough.”
Over the past six months we have seen how the artificial intelligence to cope with Board game Go, writes a script for a short film, create a filter in Snapchat. Each of these accomplishments is impressive on its own. Together they show how the rapidly developing area of artificial intelligence.
However, what breakthrough said in new York Samsonovich? Digital Trends decided to learn it himself.
In the last 50 years, with the emergence of the concept of artificial intelligence, it created undue sensation in the opinion of the Samsonovich. “The major breakthrough is expected from year to year, but it was not,” he told Digital Trends. — As a result of this idea was discredited. There is reason to believe that now we are closer than ever to a breakthrough. Indirect evidence is that in the last few years there is a rapid, exponential development of the region: it was expressed as the number of publications and in the volume of public and private investment.”
With the increased interest and investment comes considerable progress, including improvements, which will allow cars to feel. “First and foremost, it entails the demonstration of what the machine is able to experience human emotions and demonstrate emotional intelligence, comparable to human, in different circumstances,” he said.
Samsonovich argues that this does not necessarily imply consciousness. In fact, he believes that consciousness may be assessed only in himself and not in another subject and it is too uncertain an indicator.
“What I’m saying is limited to the conduct, internal organization system, including its internal speakers as neurophysiology or software,” he says. Today we can build a machine that behaves as if it has feelings like human. When you observe this behavior consistently for some time in different circumstances and continuously, you believe that this being is alive, that it is with you in social contact and, accordingly interacts with you”.
These emotionally intelligent machines will appear now and will become a reality in the next few years, according to estimates by Samsonovich, who presented his idea “Turing Test for emotional intelligence” at the conference. In the next year and a half Samsonovich and his team hope to develop a Virtual actor, artificial intelligence, able to create goals, build plans, build a social relationship with people.
But it has not happened yet, we need to change our human way of thinking.
“The current difficulties are mainly related to psychological barriers,” he said. — We already have the necessary equipment and a large part of the necessary theoretical justification. And yet people tend to think in terms of popular paradigms or not to think at all, doing the same that say and do everything.”
“People are afraid to take risks — continues Samsonovich. — Given financial support to almost all research in the field of artificial intelligence, most of us are difficult to take seriously promises with unknown outcome in the long term. Fortunately, we have to wait not so long.
Dillon Furness (Dyllan Furness) – http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/russia-ai-breakthrough/
