[citation][nom]cykro[/nom]Study some computer science instead of saying this is ridiculous.We're not talking a conventional COMPUTER PROGRAM, they don't learn. We're talking ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, probably in the form of a NEURAL NETWORK, specifically designed to learn.Simply put:Imagine a computer emulating all the interconnections of a human brain. It would be able to think and learn just like we do. Simple fact.Of course, it would probably need quite some input before it could give sensible output, just like humans do during embryo/child states But it would learn, and it would eventually be as intelligent as us.We can't produce computers of this scale yet, but it's not at all ridiculous.[/citation]
qutie ridiculous actually , NO exsiting hard drive has the mental capacity for memory that the human brain has , granted you can't always acess your "data" but the human mind literally stores EVERY thing you see smell , hear , touch or learn in life, no single hard drive much less ram can compete with that capacity ,, in curent science the huamnb rain is beleived to have a memory capacity well over the equivilant of 5,000,000 tetra byte drives possible even much more than that figure. so sure a comptuer may learn to think like us act like us , but beyond that it will be sorely lacking in what it can learn and store , not to mention it would liekly access it's long term memory (aka data that is stored to its hard drive) much slower than the slowest human does .