I just can't buy the concept of true artificial intelligence. pale imitations like Alexa and Siri are terrible in the very narrow field of requirement, how's a computer going to even have a concept of itself and an identity required for it to be a truly self contained entity ?
smart machines yeah, intelligence never.

Yeah those things have human errors all over them but a truly self aware code that can alter itself would be something else. Imagine how fast it could figure things out. Also when it edits and fixes its own code its unstoppable in the future when it can put it's information to wherever it can cracking all barriers we have now for digital information.

AI has no desire but for what it's programmed to do.

Godnaz.

Given that we are on the verge of a new era in computing power, who knows what is possible? Maybe it already exists in infant form. You would think the smartest ones would be the ones developed for warfare etc. For an AI to be 'human-like' though, I think you'd need to infuse a bit of randomness into it.

We've all heard about the weird lego-worm experiment, an area that really blurs the lines.. if you can scan the functions of a brain and make a simulacrum of it, could you take that as a framework for something new and improve on it?

It's all in the funding and research. Where is the money being spent, what on, and where is AI most valuable.

The one google is building will be accessing everyone who uses its services getting into so much data and devices simultaniously. Putin said the ones who get a ai first will rule the world.

Sex robots

The human brain connecting to the ai for faster more rapid information exchance talked about by Elon Musk etc makes me think Sam from mass effect andromeda is not that far off Also in the andromeda story there were all this fear in ppl about such thing thats why they hid its full capability from the ppl generally. I would think that has some reality to it and will possibly be kept in secret what it is capable of.