decision making

August 19, 2012 4:21am CST
If a computer will capable of taking independent decisions like human being. do you think what will happen?
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9 responses
• Vietnam
19 Aug 12
funny question! do you mean a robot? i personally think robot will never be intelligent as human being because one of the most important things to develop is creativeness and adaptation, what robot can not do.
• India
19 Aug 12
Since the technology and science are developing day by day , we can expect much more contribution in the field of robotics. It might not be an easy task, but I am sure that once we the human will achieve that, because nothing is impossible for man .
4 Oct 12
yes. i agree with you
@smacksman (6053)
19 Aug 12
No but I think it can become so close to human ability so as to be really useful. A computer is really quite stupid. It can only tell zero from 1 - but very quickly. It is the human input of the programmer that makes a computer useful.
4 Oct 12
thanks for your response
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
20 Sep 12
All decisions - even human decisions - are based on a set of 'rules' or criteria. Humans are very complex and don't always make what we think of as 'rational' decisions so that many or our choices and the particular set of rules, beliefs, preferences and so on which determine them, may not be evident. Nearly all of these very complex rules by which we make decisions, however, have been learned, in one way or another, so we can be said to be 'programmed', in a sense. Computers, being built and programmed by humans, are supposed to be absolutely predictable, or, at least, the choices that they make can be shown to have been made logically according to a set of rules which were given in their programming. For many years now there have been computer programs which are capable of learning in a very similar way to the human brain. By processing and observing data and behaviour, some programs are able to modify themselves and to create a set of rules which even the people who wrote the program may not have predicted. Computers exist, in fact, which are already able to take independent decisions in very much the same way that a human does. The question really is whether we should allow them to! In a very limited environment, such as a game of chess, it is interesting and educational to have a program which can learn from behaviour and make 'organic' decisions which improve its game. If the same methods were applied to a computer which, for example, could drive a car or a train, would we be so keen to use it or trust it? I rather doubt it!
@fantabulus (4000)
• India
22 Aug 12
Very funny thought it is impossible because if Computer will do this then man will ideal and no work in Computer.
21 Aug 12
Yeah I think this will happen, the way the brain functions is pretty similar to computer. The way our brains and independent decisions work is just like a algorithmic computation we base a lot of our decisions on logic like "do we need to eat" etc etc. I think there would be a lot of coding to do before it could be perfected but is totally possible.
@Shavkat (137177)
• Philippines
4 Oct 12
It is very interesting proposition, I don't think that any gadgets made by human being, will integrate all the qualities needed to function in decision making. If it does, then it will a disastrous thing will happen.
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
I guess a lot of people will try their skills. People will share all their problems and ask the best decision for each. I guess we don't need any adviser already nor our friends, etc.
• India
19 Aug 12
A nice question. Before anwering to your question, let me ask whether you have seen the Tamil movie 'Yanhthiran- The Robot' . The film tells about a robot who has emotions and human feelings. It has made a drastic effect in the society. Sometimes it may be an effective otherwise even more destruction .
@bloodmask (590)
• India
21 Aug 12
Well do you have ever heard of blue brain chip. Its function is to do something like that sort. and researcher are working on it.