| There have certainly been incredible strides made | | | | programming efforts are not succeeding as well |
| in the field of artificial programming and how these | | | | as they should at places like Carnegie Mellon, MIT |
| systems can interact with humans. Unfortunately | | | | and Berkeley. Is this to say I am criticizing their |
| the results as good as they are do not work as | | | | efforts entirely? No, however their mirroring |
| good as they need to. In fact a human who is | | | | theories of mimicking the human when interacting |
| asked to consider if they are discussing | | | | are not enough. Humans do not always want |
| information with a machine or a human online can | | | | interaction with like minds of other humans. As |
| usually always pick out which is which. So is this a | | | | we know opposites attract. |
| litmus test? No, but if we are going to have | | | | It is for this reason that I am calling for some |
| computers and robotics interact with people, we | | | | interactive personality programs which run over |
| must do better than we are currently. | | | | one another to be integrated into the AI systems |
| In fact what I see as a major problem currently | | | | with some mirroring which has already been |
| is that many of the Artificial Intelligence grad | | | | developed to remain and thus we will be better to |
| students and their professors are making errors | | | | simulate human behavior in machines which will be |
| in their assumptions of how best to design these | | | | interactive robotic assistants. Consider this in 2006. |
| artificial intelligent systems. Therefore their | | | | |