Company develops first "true" AI?

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<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051202/clf017.html?.v=33""GTX Global claims they've done it</a>.

However, I am extremely skeptical. Witness:

<blockquote>GTX Global Cognitive Robotics(TM) [the AI] is an integrated software solution that mimics human behavior including a dialogue oriented knowledge database that contains static and dynamic data relating to human scenarios. The knowledge further includes translation, processing and analysis components that are
responsible for processing of vocal and/or textual and/or video input, extracts emotional characteristics of the input and produces instructions on how to respond to the customer with the appropriate substantive response and emotion based on relevant information found in the knowledge base</blockquote>

Now, that describes a form of artificial intelligence in its simplest possible state: a collection of pre-programmed responses with a little evolvability grafted onto it. Think of it as one of those automated voice systems you talk to when you first call a company's tech support line--with some extra heuristics to allow for greater natural language and emotive recognition based on a standardized (but expandable) set of characteristics. That's the <i>seed</i> of an AI, but not a "true" AI. Eventually, a fully recursive, self-aware system <i>might</i> evolve out of something like this--but for now, it's just a start. A pretty interesting one, admittedly, but a start nonetheless.

A "true" AI would've written the above-linked article <i>itself.</i>

Comments

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Well you shoulde skeptical. The firt thing to notice is that the byline is PRNewsWire which means its a press release put out by the company itself. The second thing is that they don't mention Turing at all. Even though some claim it to be obsolete its still the standard conceptual boundary for AI tests. If they had a real AI they'd mention turing test results.