From: Tea@six.com   
      
   This isn't a new idea, because it is difficult creating robots and image   
   recognition systems it is tempting for an AI programmer to create an   
   artificial world within the computer and let an AI study the artificial   
   world. The problem is that the AI will only be as complex as the world it is   
   occupying, you've already stated this yourself. It isn't too difficult to   
   create an inanimate world, but then you will need to add intelligence to   
   this world so that your AI can study it, but this is a catch 22 situation,   
   because you can't add intelligence to the world because you haven't created   
   it yet. Now you could argue that a person could interact with the artificial   
   world in the same way that they interact with a game world, this would then   
   give the AI a role model. This could work but only in a simplified way, the   
   human role model would have very limited control over the their virtual   
   self. The amount of worms in the can really becomes apparent when you start   
   to try and animate the virtual world with animals etc, this is when the   
   problem becomes incredibly complex, much more complex than the AI itself. I   
   think it would be much easier to bring an AI into our world rather than   
   trying to take our world to the AI. You've also got to ask yourself what is   
   the point of creating a program that can roam around inside its own little   
   world. It isn't very practical or entertaining.   
      
   At the moment we're struggling to create programs that can figure out the   
   rules to the simplest of worlds/models, so it may be for the best to create   
   a simple world and then figure out how to make a program understand the   
   rules to that world, then later transfer the program into a robot and let it   
   figure out the rules to our world.   
      
      
   > Will it be possible to create true AI ? If it   
   > is, will it be the next major step of evolution ?   
   > What do you think ?   
      
   I think that humans are fragile, desease riddled, time wasting, selfish   
   stinking scumbags that deserve to be replaced. I doubt that we'll be taken   
   over and dominated by machines, I think that we'll just merge together. The   
   line between man and machine will become blurred. There will be a day when   
   people are 80 percent artificial and then later there will be just machine.   
      
      
   Bomb 20.   
      
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