<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c4682c7b-db13-45fc-88db-62402336c3d5/C1985FCF-FD0E-45A4-B5C1-F4AA821EFF4F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/A69BE06D-5EE0-4643-8400-9B4373BA0380" alt="Noel Sharkey thinks artificial intelligence is an illusion (Image: Rex Features)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Noel Sharkey thinks artificial intelligence is an illusion (Image: Rex Features)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><I aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Robotics expert <B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Noel Sharkey</B> used to be a believer in artificial intelligence. So why does he now think that AI is a dangerous myth that could lead to a dystopian future of unintelligent, unfeeling robot carers and soldiers? <B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Nic Fleming</B> finds out</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">What do you mean when you talk about artificial intelligence?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Are machines capable of intelligence?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">Are we close to building a machine that can meaningfully be described as sentient?</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><DIV aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><QUOTE aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"></QUOTE><QUOTETEXT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"></QUOTETEXT>The mind could be a type of physical system that cannot be recreated by computer</QUOTETEXT aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><//QUOTETEXT></QUOTE aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><//QUOTE> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">So why are predictions about robots taking over the world so common?</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">You describe AI as the science of illusion.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">These views are in stark contrast to those of many of your peers in the robotics field.</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327231.100-why-ai-is-a-dangerous-dream.html?full=true"><P aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0"><B aria-level="0" aria-posinset="0" aria-setsize="0">And you believe that there are dangers if we fool ourselves into believing the AI myth...</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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