ing its thought processes at a rate
that we could
never keep
up with or
even understand. But,
it remains,
that
we
would still
have to be
the ones
who press
‘on’.
Furthermore,
while AIs are
already commonplace, others believe
that a fully self-aware
system that utilizes
what the profes-sor
referred to as “full AI”, is
still technically impossible. Philosopher John
Searle’s ‘The Chinese
Room Problem’,20
insists that no matter what responses computers and
robots are able
to provide - such
20
as in The Turing Test
- they still ultimately
amount
to systems
reading stored information, and that giving any given machine
more and more information still does not
constitute intelligence.
A computer scientist,
Edsger Dijkstra, once
even stated that “the
question of whether
machines can think is
about as relevant as
the question of whether submarines can
swim”.21 It seems that
no matter how much
information a robot
can hold, there is an
inescapable difference
between
knowledge
and intelligence.