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When will I be able to talk to my computer in conversational English and debate topics with it?

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2006-08-05 18:42:58, Category: Programming & Design
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  1. Anthony R

    On 2006-08-05 18:47:01


    If they come up with a computer that does this before they come up with a cure for AIDS, it's a damn shame...a damn shame

  2. Gamerx

    On 2006-08-05 19:00:02


    Well you can talk to your computer. Its called voice regognition. You can type a whole word document by speaking it out loud. But its still very young technology and you will get lots of error. On a mac you can quit out of programs by saying QUIT to the mic. I can play chess with the computer by saying were I want to move the piece. There are games that you play that use voice regonition to move around the game. As for the whole talking and debating part that my friend is not even possible. Sure you can chat with bots online but they hardley carry any meaningfull conversations. We may never get emotions on a coputer. We can emulate emotions but computers wont have their own thoughts. Computers might be able to talk to you and say hello to you and ask you about your wife but they will wont understand what you mean when you say she was a pain in the neck at the conference or what ever. AI is still reletivly young and we wont be talking to computers for another centuries or maybe years.

  3. Vitagen

    On 2006-08-05 18:46:10


    well...all of the computers in the world combined could not produce the artifical intelligence of a human brain.

  4. aenman123

    On 2006-08-05 19:48:45


    they have voice recognition programs which could then be translated into text, sent over the internet for corresponding answers and sent back to you, interpreted and outputed thru another program, whihc in turn would be conversing with you. The technollogy is there for this, no one has utilized it tho, as it is among many companies. Once software firms merge and programmers get smarter, things like this wil be possible

  5. warjolt

    On 2006-08-05 19:35:26


    Never. During your lifetime computers will probably be powerful enough to reproduce the processing power of the human mind. Some may say it lacks is the soul. I think it's missing common sense. Computers can only do what we tell it. We don't even fully understand the human mind how are we suppose to tell a computer how to "think" like us. The truth is there are programs that can write music "like" mozart or "like" beethoven, but they can't write anything original. Computers don't desire, computers don't have what I like to refer to as common-sense. Humans have millions of years of programming. We've written programs that mimic human expertise in specific fields, but a computer cannot learn like we can and once this "artificial intelligence" is challenged with something slightly beyond it's expertise it fails miserably. It would probably be almost impossible for computers to learn like we do.

  6. sonyack

    On 2006-08-05 18:49:46


    We're working on it, Captain, but we're a wee bit short on dilithium crystals - you'll have to gie me a moment......

  7. sheeple_rancher

    On 2006-08-05 20:31:30


    I was talking to my computer last week. I said something to the effect "stupid mofo piece of..." but you don't need the details. Nobody has come up with a way to make computers able to discuss anything intelligently, least of all debate, with a human being. It's not about voice recognition, it's about how we model a world and can concieve it from several perspectives (including 2nd, 3rd, 4th person). There is also the little matter of dealing in incomplete information - we and computers handle this very very differently (and most anything worth debating is so because of incomplete information). Interpolating and projecting datapoints to many decimal places does not create new possible worlds and paradigms. However, getting to the debate stage of is too is not is too is not should be pretty easy.