The Artificial Being Project

I’m going to set a goal for myself. The goal is to create a complete artificial being with full human like capabilities. It will be conscious, intelligent, self sustaining organism. I take the pledge that what may come I’ll complete this project and will not deviate myself from this task. I am a Lover of Artificial Intelligence and will remain a lover.

Goal: To create an Artificial Being just like Human Beings.

Difficulties: Following will be major hurdles in achieving this goal:-
1. Lack of sufficient time
2. Lack of knowledge in this particular subject
3. Lack of resources

Introduction

The reason why Artificial Intelligence is so much interesting task is because the nature of human mind. The human mind, always, want to see what’s beyond its limit and what’s not. It then wants to conquer the limits to expand the boundaries of its knowledge. The basic reason for curiosity is not known to me (or anyone?) but curiosity is the most important factor which made human to progress to such a great extent and still progressing. IDEA: The Artificial Being must be, always, curious for information and knowledge in order to progress.

The AI field is hot and will remain hot until a saturation point is reached when there will be such smart robots that they cannot be made smarter. That saturation point is not very near nor very far off, with respect to current work in field of AI; it may be 2150 when smarter-than-humans robots will arrive. But the question arises: Why would we want to develop such systems which are smarter than we are? I don’t know why I’m pursuing this project, but it could be possibly that there is some inner feeling in humans to do whatever we can and to try everything which we can’t.

At first, this project seems to be impossible but developing an Artificial Being is not as difficult as it seems. If we want to code some system as intelligent as we are first of all we’ll have to study our won brain. Till now we have not been able to know how brain works, then how can we model the brain into computers? Even before this question another question arises what’s difference between brain and mind? Brain is hardware or framework and mind is the software which is working on it. It’s better to code brain and mind separately in computer. The mind could be possibly be:

• Complex arrangement of information and knowledge inside brain
• Virtual; Not existing at all
• Some external force driving it(we’re deviating from science a little)
• May be existing in 5th or 6th dimension not discovered by humans till now

From above alternatives the most significant is the first one. If we consider brain as complex arrangements of roads and knowledge as cars then the mind may be a kind of router which regulates the flow of cars along the roads and helps them to reach their final destination. But can this complex arrangement give rise to consciousness?

Idea for an Artificial Being

For an AB to exist there must be 5 elements present. They are:

1. Environment
2. Input or senses
3. Memory or rule book
4. Output or motor
5. A goal meter

Environment: It consists of all that data which can be fed into the AB through its senses and can be interacted by the AB.

Input: It consists of various senses like sound, text, vision, etc. There may be any number of senses

Output: It consists of various output devices like text, muscles, internal thought, arms, legs, etc.

Memory: It just records the inputs, outputs and the feedback they get.

Goal Meter: Goal meter is the basic goal for which an organism lives. It may be health, age, progress, happiness, etc. If there are more than two major goals like happiness and health then there will be two goal meters.

- Paras Chopra
  3rd Year,
  Biotechnology