Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Of scientific bull...

(I just came back from work and am in fuck all state of mind. So if this post doesn't make sense, well, it's not intended to.)
This post is inspired by advances being made in the field of AI. Everyone has seen movies in that genre and the one common thread through each is that bots are smart but emotionless bastards running on algorithms and respective responses. So why can't we simulate emotions? (Note that I am no expert on the subject and all discussions are qualitative and may have been (dis)proved long back). Since most artificial systems we know of at this age are based on electric(al)(onics) components, it becomes difficult to simulate emotions. What if one was to include chemical responses in a bot. Have a system that based on a statistical algorithm would determine the particular chemistry and generate neurological responses based on that. Aha! if you are smart at this point you ask, why even carry out the chemical process. Just simulate it and reach a decision. Of course in that case one would have to be absolutely certain of the reaction to a very high degree of precision because even a small change may alter the results. So having done all this over-my-head-driving-one-crazy-i-hate-research-damn-this-sucks crap one might just might be able to have bots in the future who would infact be human!!

Fallacies: Well, for one the crap I said about the chemical processes and precision. Even if it was not simulated but real how would you know of its accuracy. And for that matter no two human beings would probably respond in the same manner. More importantly if you have read so far, you have actually read the mindless blabberous rambling of a man who has nothing to do with a) chemistry b) biology c) electrical sciences and/or any combination of those plus a lot more. Which brings me to the biggest fallacy in the model. YOU CANNOT SIMULATE STUPID!

(*guffaw followed by boisterous laughter*)

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