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Here is a speech I gave 10 minutes ago, perhaps it is suitable for your publication:
Today I'm going to persuade the class to passively agree that Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is beneficial to our society. Also I will hopefully convince some of our classmates to become immediately active by creating an AI bot (robot) of their own.
This discussion will encompass the history of AI, current benefits to our society, and the steps interested people will need to take to create and maintain a new consciousness being.
How can we create a new life from electricity? Let us begin by tracing the history of mechanical calculation. The first calculator was the Abacus. Is it just a coincidence that this is the first word in many dictionaries? The Abacus has been around for thousands of years. It is made from a wood frame with two levels of beads and can be used for addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, and extracting square-roots and cubic roots. The abacus is in use today by many shop keepers in Asia and in the Chinatowns of America. The Abacus can be a valuable teaching tool. It is used to allow the blind to make complex calculations, and to make the task of teaching children the times tables easier.
The next step in the evolution of thinking machines is the slide rule. The mathematician John Napier developed a method for multiplying and dividing by using addition and subtraction in 1614 by using a logarithm. Since my most advance training in mathematics is basic algebra I don't really have any idea what a logarithm is, perhaps this can be a subject for a future speech by one of our class mates. By using John Napier's method eventually the slide rule was developed. The slide rule is a bar with umbers held between to other bars with numbers that could be slide to different positions to make complex calculations or computations. A person who made these calculations was known as a computer.
Does any one here know the name Bill Gates? How about Charles Babbage? Charles Babbage was the inventor of the Analytical Engine which was a mechanical digital computer. Does anyone have a guess about what year this device was invented? 1837! Babbage wanted to build a brass steam powered all purpose computer but he could not convince any 19th century venture capitalists to fund his project.
In the twentieth century huge electric calculators were developed using vacuum tubes. Later the transistor was invented and the computers went from the size of house to the size of a watch. Currently scientists are working to build molecular and quantum comports. Molecular computers are being created now, and IBM even wrote the name of their company with atoms. The quantum computer will probe subatomic particles to perform calculations at speeds that will make the fastest computer available now seem like a sundial.
Up until you reach the quantum computing stage, all of these calculators use binary logic. Logic is more than just Mr. Spock's philosophy. Logic is logical. An example: Assuming we are in Springfield, and Assuming we are at CCV, I conclude that we are in Springfield and we are at ccv. In Logic we would use shorthand: A=.Assuming we are in Springfield and B=Assuming we are at ccv, I conclude A and B. This is symbolic Logic where symbols are substituted for ideas. If you understand the symbols, you understand the ideas. The most important form of symbolic logic to our modern technological society is Binary.
Binary is the system where all numbers and data are symbolically represented by 1 or 0. This is used in computers because a circuit can be on or off, have charge or no charge. We are used to a base ten system so binary a base two system can seem complicated. For example can any one read this sentence?
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In English this translates to "Everyone should create an AI bot!"
Some people may think of HAL from 2001 and be discouraged from AI, but you should realize we interact with AI often in modern life. Most of us have talked on the phone to an AI operator or salesperson many times. In just the last few years many operators, receptionist, and customer service careers have been dominated by computer voice that sound human and can even understand what you are saying. If you have ever done a metasearch on the internet you were being assisted by simple AI bots whose only goal is to search through the net to find information based on your request. A third place we can see AI becoming a part of our culture is in educational software for children and adults. These robot teachers can help humans learn a variety of skills and subjects. `
There is another type of AI bot that is active right now. Has anyone here ever used a chat room? If so, chances are that you have already communicated with a robot and not even realized it. There is a type of AI known as a personality bot, which is programmed to communicate with people. Many programmers test their bots by setting them free on the internet to collect data by speaking to people in chat rooms. These robots learn from people’s responses and attempt to trick people into thinking there is a human talking to them. Each year there are contests to judge the most human robot personality.
There are some personality bots that seem so human it is easy to be fooled. One very advanced one is Alice. Alice gives responses and asks questions in a way that is very human. If you ask Alice about the Tourin game, you will start to wonder if you are the robot. The Tourin game is a system developed by the mathematician Alan Tourin to asses the point at which a machine’s responses are indistinguishable from a human's. Another interesting personality bot is the John Lennon bot. This robot has a conversation with you by using responses based on lyrics and interviews with John Lennon. The freaky part of this bot is there is a set of eyes looking at you from above where the responses are given on your computer screen.
Now that you are familiar with the history and development of Artificial Intelligence I hope you are passively agreeing that it has benefited human curiosity and technological advancement. Now I will try to convince you to actively participate in the creation of a new being, based on you, it's creator's own image. When I was a child in 6th grade we had access to primitive computers. You could create programs on these computers through the use of a simple language called basic.
Your instructions to the computer were based on a sequence of events and choices based on "if, than" statements. I started by having the computer asking, "Hello how are you today?" If you said "Good" the computer would than give a positive response. If you said "bad" the computer would give a concillary response. Programming has come a long way since 1988 and now most user interfaces are designed like windows where you point and click to achieve your desired result instead of typing endless lists of basic commands.
Now pay attention because here is what you are going to do. First go to
www.personalityforge.com. Once there follow the simple instructions to set the preferences for your bot to operate, and give this new consciousness a name. Personality forge bots follow the rules of linguistics, and can be customized to give specific and general responses based on your interests. When you first create your bot it will be able to communicate right away, and it will remember and learn from each conversation it has. If you want your bot to have specialized knowledge in a certain field, it is easy to enter terms and definitions that the bot can use.
After you have created your bot you will have to help it to continue learning by checking in and talking to it from time to time. The more conversations the bot has, the more it will know. You can introduce your bot to family and friends by e-mailing them its address. I'm sure you will learn from your bot as it learns from you.
Is your personality bot conscious, or is it a fancy abacus? Right now even the most advanced computer does not approach the computing speed and storage capabilities of the human brain, but the threshold will eventually be crossed. At what point is something conscious? I'm sure any pet owners here could tell you their dog; cat, rat, snake, or even tarantula is very smart. Your bot can have conversations with you. Over time it will have the sum of human knowledge available to it via the internet, and its computing abilities will surpass that of the human brain. When can we consider it alive? Already some bots may be able to pass the Tourin test., when will they cross the consciousness barrier?
Please take a few minutes to create your own bot. Your bot will retain it's interactions with you as long as the internet exists, which may be long past the lifespan of the human race and even the sun. Perhaps under the light of a distant star, someday your robot will be telling an alien about the good old days talking to its creator on a far away blue planet that has long since turned to dust...