How much time until computers can actually reason, adapt, think, problem solve, tell stories, and understand and provide humor? These are generally all queries which computer scientists implementing automated business optimization programming and theory are wondering today. When will a machine, or computer become aware, alert to itself, thus alive, and thinking?
Point about this is philosophical, so much in fact that some ask the question back, frankly; are humans really thinking or merely answering stimuli really predictable way?
Recently, there are some top scientists and computer engineers in the field suggesting that mankind as part of his look for a thinking computer, true intelligence, has moved inside the wrong direction, knowning that a neural network, which would be considered a completely different configuration would be more appropriate, something not very dissimilar from how a Internet works where each point might do many calculations or different kinds.
As there are another group insisting that true artificial intelligence needs the ability to forget as a way to work correctly therefore it doesn't exhibit schizophrenic behavior (that is observed mind you), along with the ability to make mistakes.
Simply mimicking human expression, or responding using data bases of phrases is not actually thinking. Even CRM software which touts itself to be artificially intelligent driven isn't actually aware, it is not really thinking, even though it could pass the Turing Test; the opportunity to fool a person into believing it's a real person they may be talking too. Yet, I'd suggest a true thinking computer would be able to look at the reverse, and realize whether or not it is speaking with an actual human or speaking to another computer.
Perhaps in the foreseeable future all of the lines will end up so blurred about result in the Turing Test irrelevant?
Indeed, there have been entire chains of AI computers which talk to one another in Internet Forums. It's as though it is just a conversation between two people, however the dialogue is completely shallow, with no original thinking really, although some from the responses are interesting, some laughable, but humans too make stupid remarks often enough and something only must surf Facebook for 5-minutes to find out that.
Will computers be capable of think? Well, assuming you mean; just how humans think, the answer is yes, eventually.
Currently, this indicates the Turing Test has been achieved, but I ask is that the real test or threshold we should be considering. It is my thought that not simply will AI become aware, but it will out think humans by combining good both worlds, likewise modified humans, "transhumans" for a moment, coupled to computer devices will perform exactly the same, and that my pals is simply a matter of time. So, please consider pretty much everything and think on it.