• Question: What year do you think robots will have the same intelligence as humans? I hope you all like te as well!

    Asked by spinigo to Mike, Pip, Tianfu, Tim, Tom on 26 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      One huge difference between our brains and computers is how well connected all the bits are. People can already make a computer that thinks faster, or remembers more things than a human. And you could also fill that computer with ‘experiences’ and the ability to learn.

      I thin that it could be done pretty soon, you just need somebody who is mad/rich enough to do it!

    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 26 Jun 2012:

      Within our lifetimes, but it’s a very difficult job to make computers able to learn like humans so it might not be soon.

    • Photo: Philippa Bird

      Philippa Bird answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      I don’t think it will ever be possible, because, as I have said in other answers, the human body is the most sophisticated machine ever made, more complicated than anything man could make. We only know the structure and function of 5% of the proteins that make things happen. So we might be able to make very good approximations with robots in some areas, but we will never make something with the sensitivities of the human brain – not just logical, but emotional reasoning, creativity, experiences accumulated. Maybe the robot will be more efficient with just logic though and not other things in the way!

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