Are there ways that AI can have thinking power, going forward?

Turing felt that within 50 years of his paper, that is by 2000, computers would’ve been designed which could pass his ‘test’. Why do you think it did not happen? Turing believed in constantly evolving embedded intelligence in a machine. But if we see the present trend, it’s more of a complexity question. People are into developing a faster computing device, given that time has gain paramount importance, equivalent to money! Turing nine arguments to object the question of intelligence in machine, attacks the prevalent notion and itself justifies that speed and ample memory is just the prerequisites, but not the end.

The foundation of AI lies with the neural networks, fuzzy logics and genetic algorithm. These networks are trained with specific domain values in order to produce the results. This delimits space under test to a restricted function. After a machine is trained with the set of rules and functions, it only thinks on these lines and predicts the probability of a set of possible outcomes. Moreover, the idea of making a choice is so deterministic and guided that it lacks self-evolution. Now suppose, we have a system which is self-evolving, it will be able to generate its own intelligence. For example, a simple AI machine, by touching a hot water will make sure, it will not be touching it any further; but if this machine has self-evolutionary power, it will be able to generate its own gloves that will protect it in future.

As per Charles Darwin, living being embodies the survival for the fittest. It is this nature that makes living being evolve over time and handle the problem likewise. Now suppose, a machine is developed on these lines, it will surely evolve its own assets and understanding of its environment, just like what humans do, and so will be able to write a sonnet. This in-turn implies that they will possess a certain feeling of its own as experienced by the surroundings. Human emotions are guided by the hormonal levels. There exist certain biomedical chips, which are based on the similar principles. It processes the data based on level of chemical (an analogue signal). This can be viewed as a certain kind of feeling that the machine had towards the input – a case similar to desire. If we see human body, we in-fact are surviving due to the digesting action of E. coli bacteria present in our intestine, on our food. This show that humans alone in itself, can’t work the way they are working, in isolation. What I feel is that, we mislead in the direction towards the development of a machine that can pass the Turing test, as we are grossly ignoring the two major aspects of intelligence, i.e. evolution and mutual-existence. If we try to incorporate these two into the AI development, we will be able to embody the free-will into the machine.