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Hal
ハル
2013 · Film · 60 min
Directed by Ryotaro Makihara
Kurumi’s heart was broken by the sudden death of her boyfriend in a tragic airplane accident. By melding futuristic technology with the binary equivalent of human emotion, a brilliant scientist created an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate to take Hal’s place – and lure Kurumi from her shroud of solitude.
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>For the general public, AI is a synonym for deep learning
I'd contend for the general public, AI is a synonym for machines like: HAL; The Terminator; Star Trek's "Data"; the robots in the film "AI"; and so on.
We're nowhere remotely in the vicinity of that, and no-one even has any plausible ideas about how to start.
A random person outside of tech probably doesn't even know what deep learning is. They might have heard of it somewhere in passing.
The following two statements are not incompossible: 1. At each time T, we believe that "machine intelligence", according to the definition in use at time T, is a few decades away; 2. At each time T, we're right.
They're not incompatible, but the second one isn't true.
It's true that a few decades ago some folks thought that a computer capable of playing good chess would be true "machine intelligence". But they also thought such a computer would be able to carry on a sensible conversation and generally act like a person.
It turns out that playing a decent game of chess was easier than we thought, but building a HAL-like computer (man, I just realised that movie is nearly fifty years old!) is still incredibly difficult.
Still, I shouldn't even be talking about "building" an intelligent computer. The hardware is the easy part, the software is the hard part. Surely by now, all the supercomputers in the world are quite capable of simulating a rat's brain. But are they? Hell no, nobody has ever written a rat-brain simulation and nobody has the foggiest idea how to start.