Terrestrial intelligence?
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Goodbye. And thanks for all the fish.
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The answer to this question depends on the definition of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Let's say that an entity is intelligent if it passes the Turing Test, meaning that you can't tell that it's not human just by chatting with it over the Internet. Note that this definition is strongly linked to the human experience and thus to the human body and human culture. This implies that we might not only need an artificial brain, but also an artificial body (sensors and actuators) to obtain AI.\n\nNow, if we just focus on the processing power of the brain (which is only part of the story), then Vadim Gerasimov (see source) gives us an idea: "The number of transistors in 500 Pentiums (4, 1.5 GHz) is roughly the same as the number of neurons in cerebral cortex. The firing frequency is 1,000,000 times higher in the Pentium. Transistors are less sophisticated than neurons. For example, transistors cannot move and change connections." Note that, to implement the flexibility of the neurons, the higher 'clock speed' might very well be required and might not even suffice.\n\nThe kind of processing power suggested by Gerasimov is well within our reach. The hard part is to write the software that allows the entity to evolve so that it becomes intelligent. We do not really know how to write this software, but of course quite a few scientists are investigating this. One of my favorite AI researchers is Rodney Brooks (see source). Do check out his work!
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It might be Seti@Home...\nIt's to look for extra terrestrials...\nhttp://setiathome.berkeley.edu/
719812
Not the current kind of computers. Keep mixing animal neurons and metallic parts and we might see something really scary.
520451
We are intelligent?????!!!!!
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Everything that lives on or in land or water or the sky is intelligent enough to have survived till now against a plethora of predators. The future will let us know if man is intelligent enough to survive the most dangerous predator of them all - MAN Himself!
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Remote sensing is using some kind of sensor to detect remote objects.  Absolutely we can see another location through remote sensing.  My eyes do it all the time!  You might be thinking about "remote viewing" which is in the same class of abilities as ESP, telekinesis, and palm reading.  There is no scientific basis for these abilities, so any apparent demonstration of them is a trick or a hoax.
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Nah, probably not like this. Very probable that there's a planet with intelligent life though.
323990
I can see how it could happen. There are artificial intelligence programs that do get smarter over time. But as for physical evolution... maybe in the future.
90107
That depends upon the definition of 'intelligence' and there is not just one. People tend to identify human-like behaviors with intelligence, but what is it? Learning ability? Tool use? Self-consciousness?\nI don't know.\n\nSo that's my non-view on the subject, as a biologist.
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The more intelligent the creature, the less that survival depends on instinct and the more it depends on the young learning from the experienced.\n\nWe are the most intelligent species on the planet, born with almost no instincts, especially in regards to survival. Our only strong survival instincts are infant bonding to adult caregivers, pre-adolecent child responsiveness to adult direction, the urge to communicate with others, and the mating urge. Children have to learn every skill needed to survive from adults. Modern schools focus on literacy because communication in print has become such a key component of almost all specializations.\n\nOur species has also developed another survival skill--specialization. Civilization began to develop when each individual did not have to be able to do all things to guarrantee his/her survival, but could focus on one or two things. Talents began to emerge. Some people were good at hunting, others at growing plants, others at creating clothing, etc.\n\nNow, almost every task we do is specialized; although everyone can attempt any task with some degree of success, individuals emerge as extreme specialists, and by trading specialities, the skills passed on from expert to expert have grown exponentially. Hence, technology, extreme advances in medicine, etc.\n\nBy sending children to a centralized location to learn from those who have specialized in teaching, parents that specialize in other areas are able to continue their own expert contributions to the community. Also, children from dysfunctional, non-contributing parents have a better chance of finding their own abilities and becoming productive members of the community.
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I think intelligence is when we think logically about something. Like if we are taught that when metal gets hot, it turns red, and we see a stove we stay away, that's intelligence.\n\nWhen it's red, and you don't know any better, but veer away because it doesn't seem right or safe, that's instint. With instint, you don't have to learn. You just know it.
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SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) is a project which has been running for the last 50 years or so, analyzing radio signals received on Earth from space.  There are various institutes which have been set up, and which work together to do so.  A lot of the founding work put into this was done by Frank Drake, simply to check for extra-terrestrial intelligence.  The aim of the project contains as such, attempting to decode radio signals received at Earth.  If you want to participate, you could check out the SETI@HOME site (http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/) which runs on your PC when you are not busy with it, and attempts to decode signals received and sends the results back to them.\n\nAlthough at least one highly interesting signal has been received (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow%21_signal), it has never been repeated and most scientists believe this was probably a fluke.
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not necessarily...it is simulating intelligence in general. It means the Artificial entity is able to learn, reason, gain cognitive abilities, adapt, and so on. Humans have all of these abilities, but a machine could possibly do all of these things (providing they have A.I.) faster and more efficient, surpassing human intelligence quickly.
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Last week I watched a telecast on the History chennel, in which they showed how a plane was disapeared in sky near some island. minutes ago the plane was dissappeared, it was haunted by a ufo(unidentified flying object). In the black box of the flight,it read that the ufo was long tube like structure and was moving at gerat pace which the speed o meter fo plane was also not able to estimate. So from this incident, I think that aliens are far more intelligent than humans,who are belived to be the supreme beings
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Biological computers aren't a myth anymore... For those who don't believe this, read this article:\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/358822.stm\nOf course I don't say it's a genius because it's not, but this computer is capable of learning, associtaing relations, show the results depending on its knowledge and so on... \nArtificial Intelligence is growing very fast so who knows what the future will bring. For now it's just in developing stage, or with national security status :P.\nhttp://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/02/the_rise_of_the.html
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The best answer you are going to get for that can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence