How much time until computers can reason, adapt, think, problem solve, tell stories, and understand and provide humor? They are all queries which computer scientists working on artificial intelligence systems programming and theory are thinking about today. When does a machine, or laptop or computer become aware, conscious of itself, thus alive, and thinking?
Point about this is philosophical, a case in point that some wonder back, this means; are humans really thinking or merely responding to stimuli really predictable way?
Recently, there have been some top scientists and computer engineers from the field suggesting that mankind in his look for a thinking computer, true intelligence, has moved within the wrong direction, which a neural network, which may be a completely different configuration will be more appropriate, something much less dissimilar from how a Internet works where each point might do many calculations or differing types.
Then there is another group insisting that true artificial intelligence needs the opportunity to forget to be able to be effective so it doesn't exhibit schizophrenic behavior (that has been observed by the way), plus the ability to make some mistakes.
Simply mimicking human expression, or responding using data bases of phrases isn't thinking. Even CRM software which touts itself to be artificially intelligent driven isn't really aware, it isn't really really thinking, and although it might pass the Turing Test; to be able to fool a human into believing it's really a real person they're talking too. But, I'd suggest a true thinking computer could possibly think about the reverse, and realize whether or not it is speaking with a real human or conversing with another computer.
Perhaps down the road all those lines will end up so blurred about make Turing Test irrelevant?
Indeed, there were entire chains of AI computers which speak to one another in Internet Forums. It looks like this is a conversation between two different people, however the dialogue is entirely shallow, and no original thinking really, even though some of the responses are interesting, some laughable, but humans too make stupid remarks often enough and one only must surf Facebook for 5-minutes to see that.
Will computers ever be capable of think? Well, assuming you mean; the way humans think, the answer is yes, eventually.
Currently, it appears the Turing Test has become achieved, on the other hand ask would be that the real test or threshold you should be considering. It's my thought not only will AI become aware, however it will out think humans by combining the very best of all possible worlds, likewise modified humans, "transhumans" as it were, coupled to computer devices can do the identical, and that my friends is just a couple of time. So, please consider pretty much everything and think onto it.