Are there any research teams which attempted to create or have already created an AI robot which can be as close to intelligent as these found in Ex Machina or I, Robot movies?I'm not talking about full awareness, but an artificial being which can make its own decisions and physical and intellectual tasks that a human being can do?
How close are we to creating Ex Machina?
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We are absolutely nowhere near, nor do we have any idea how to bridge the gap between what we can currently do and what is depicted in these films.The current trend for DL approaches (coupled with the emergence of data science as a mainstream discipline) has led to a lot of popular interest in AI.However, researchers and practitioners would do well to learn the lessons of the 'AI Winter' and not engage in hubris or read too much into current successes.For example:Success in transfer learning is very limited. The 'hard problem' (i.e. presenting the 'raw, unwashed environment' to the machine and having it come up with a solution from scratch) is not beingaddressed by DL to the extent that it is popularly portrayed: expert human knowledge is still required to help decide how the input should be framed, tune parameters, interpret output etc.Someone who has enthusiasm for AGI would hopefully agree that the 'hard problem' is actually the only one that matters. Some years ago, a famous cognitive scientist said We have yet to successfully represent even a single concept on a computer. In my opinion, recent research trends have done little to change this.All of this perhaps sounds pessimistic - it's not intended to. None of us want another AI Winter, so we should challenge (and be honest about) the limits of our current techniques rather than mythologizing them.