I am very interested in artificial intelligence, and I think that computers in a few years will be able to handle so much information a human brain is able to.
(They will propably not get consciousness, but they can be able to handle information as good or even better than a human brain.)

I just found a interesting artificial intelligence test, who can by tried here:

http://y.20q.net:8095/btest

Here is one of my tests:


I am guessing that it is water?
Yes , No , Close

16. Is it smaller than a loaf of bread? Irrelevant.
15. Does it have cash value? Yes.
14. Can you eat it? Yes.
13. Is it used in Oriental cooking? Probably.
12. Would you find it in an office? Probably.
11. Does it contain a lot of water? Yes.
10. Does it contain a liquid? Yes.
9. Do most people use this daily? Yes.
8. Is it something you can wear? No.
7. Do you clean it regularly? No.
6. Is it very, very expensive? Irrelevant.
5. Is it worth a lot of money? Probably.
4. Does it come in different colors? No.
3. Is it a metal? No.
2. Does it shine? Probably.
1. It is classified as Mineral.
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Yes, it was water I was thinking about.

And by the way; here is a other AI program, who shall try to chat with humans in a way that it is easy to imagine that we are chatting with a human, and not a computer program.
You can try it here: http://www.a-i.com/show_tree.asp?id=115

Any viewpoints about artificial intelligence anyone?
Do you think the computers will be able to handle information in the same way a human brain do?
(I think it is possible, and that it may be possible already for about 10 years).
And the computer scientist Alan Turing had no doubt about the computers abilities already 50 years ago.