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@Okanogen@mastodon.social @cybso@osna.social @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @krautdragon@mastodon.social Artificial Intelligence is a term for those branches of Computer Science that are concerned with solving complex problems for which humans use their intelligence. Also, there are actually parts of AI research that can produce intelligent agents. In order to become truly intelligent (not as intelligent as a human, but as intelligent as a beetle or a worm), an agent needs to be autonomous, and it needs to be able to learn continuously from its interactions with its environment. Autonomous robotics research is a field where people work on such types of artificial intelligences. Human level intelligence is probably not possible with the type of hardware we use today, we haven't got enough computing power on this planet to run a simulation of even a fraction of the human brain, even if all processors on this planet did nothing else. Also, nobody wants fully autonomous agents to become too intelligent because then nobody would be able to control them anymore. Just look at what the more intelligent wild animals do, how they cause all kinds of mayhem just because they can. Gangs of monkeys stealing food from supermarket shoppers in Asia. Keas opening rubbish bins. Now imagine what an autonomous robot with dexterous hands could do. It doesn't need to have human level intelligence to cause a lot of damage.