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Machines beat humans at chess and cars, like Elon Musk’s Tesla, have self-driving features.

Thanks to the average home Wi-Fi System you can manage all the appliances in your household, from an app on your smartphone, while you are at work or even out of town. 

Technologists, engineers, and researchers are finding ways to use artificial intelligence in education, the medical profession, and customer service. AI is influencing the automotive industry and it’s traveling in space.

As superintelligence develops, neuroscientists, physicists, and programmers all ponder the nature of life. More often than not, it is suggested that AI will someday develop into a separate species. 

Changing the Rules in AI

Until the early 1990’s AI was developed primarily through rules-based techniques. This meant that robots could only do what they were programmed to do.

Artificial Intelligence programmed by humans was totally reactive and further limited to specific reactions or clearly defined “rules.” AI was not able to absorb experience or maintain memories to help it make decisions.

The shift from rules-based learning to experiential has introduced a “self-determination” dynamic that allows machines to learn from the information they are given.   

AI, at its most effective, uses Machine Learning and Deep Learning tools. With machine learning, computers have acquired the capability to teach themselves. They are no longer dependent on a human programmer.  Using deep learning techniques, AI can now make its own rules.  

Voltaire summed it up before Spiderman quoted him in the movies ... “With great power comes great responsibility.” 

The Soul Algorithm  

In 1950, when Turing presented his paper he was questioning if computers could really “think.” Since then, popular culture has given us "The Jetsons," "2001 a Space Odyssey," "Star Trek," and the Star Wars franchise. So on-screen, in classrooms, and in the workplace machines are thinking.

Since the 1980’s, AI, in robot form, has been depicted in such classic films as "Blade Runner," "The Terminator," "I, Robot," "Wall-E," and "Robocop." And of course, "WarGames." 

The idea that robots can somehow come alive and do harm, is a reality in the movies. There is also the concept that a machine can be loyal, love, and even have its heartbroken. 

The ability to think and to be conscious are signs that a “being” is truly alive. Having “feelings” and emotions is also a good indicator that we aren’t dealing with inanimate objects. To date, artificial intelligence hasn’t produced a real-life machine.