The length of time until computers can in fact reason, adapt, think, problem solve, tell stories, and understand and create humor? They are your concerns which computer scientists working on cognitive computing programming and theory are wondering today. When will a machine, or computer become aware, conscious of itself, thus alive, and thinking?
Much of this is philosophical, so much in fact that some wonder in the opposite direction, in other words; are humans really thinking or merely giving an answer to stimuli really predictable way?
Recently, there were some top scientists and computer engineers from the field suggesting that mankind in their find a thinking computer, true intelligence, has moved inside the wrong direction, understanding that a neural network, which will be described as a very different configuration can be appropriate, something much less dissimilar from how a Internet works where each point might do many calculations or different types.
As there are another group insisting that true artificial intelligence needs the opportunity to forget as a way to work correctly in order that it doesn't exhibit schizophrenic behavior (that is observed mind you), as well as the capacity to make mistakes.
Simply mimicking human expression, or responding using data bases of phrases is not actually thinking. Even CRM software which touts itself being artificially intelligent driven isn't actually aware, it isn't really really thinking, even though it will pass the Turing Test; to be able to fool an individual into believing it's a real person they are talking too. Nevertheless, I'd advise a true thinking computer could possibly look at the reverse, and realize whether it can be talking to a genuine human or speaking with another computer.
Perhaps in the foreseeable future those lines will become so blurred about make the Turing Test irrelevant?
Indeed, there has been entire chains of AI computers which talk to each other in Internet Forums. It looks like it's a conversation between 2 different people, nevertheless the dialogue is totally shallow, with out original thinking really, however some in the responses are interesting, some laughable, but humans too make stupid remarks often enough and one only should surf Facebook for 5-minutes to find out that.
Will computers be capable to think? Well, assuming you mean; the way humans think, the answer then is yes, eventually.
Currently, it seems like the Turing Test continues to be achieved, on the other hand ask is the real test or threshold we should be considering. It is my thought not merely will AI become aware, but it'll out think humans by combining good all possible, likewise modified humans, "transhumans" as it were, coupled to computer devices will do precisely the same, which my buddies is simply a few time. So, please consider pretty much everything and think about it.