Are We Smarter Than a Robot?

Artificial Intelligence is a concept that would make possible our most remote dreams. Marvin Minsky believed that one day machines could have the capability of surpassing the human brain. Minsky has this theory that artificial intelligence has the potential to model human intelligence, and make those machines exhibit thoughts and even have free will. The key to artificial intelligence is when computers are designed with common sense, consciousness or self awareness. Minsky and other like him, believe they would soon be able to program machines to simulate many forms of human reasoning. Machines would be able to embody this theory and manipulate knowledge in the form of symbolic logic. Minsky is not suggesting that machines or robots will be smarter than human, they have the capability to imitate human intelligence.

I think that human intelligence and artificial intelligence currently operate in different worlds. Artificial Intelligence can only surpass human intelligence when it becomes a superset of human intelligence. I don't expect this to happen. Computers will not be able to process thought like humans and other living animal. In order for a machine to function like a human it would have to have vast amount of consciousness. A computer would have to process variables simultaneously and decide the best deviation for a given situation to be able to achieve this, instead of every movement being programmed with variables that only change when something is accomplished. For man to make a machine that emulates a brain, they would have to reproduce a number of variables. The computer inside the robot will need to process variables, including speech, which will prompt it to be angry, then apply it to the action. But a person actions and memories are constantly evolving from experiences, unlike a robot, which are just programmed functions. 

I believe it will be possible to achieve a certain degree of human-like qualities, but never the same as the human brain. One reason that supports this is that computers process data using binary numbers, but human thoughts (and brain) are so abstract and undefined, it wouuld be almost impossible are it to emulate its functions. Human intelligence is a completely different dimension than that of artificial intelligence.