Based on my current knowledge of physics (classical through quantum theory), although limited, there are several basic principles that are always constant

  1.  The rules that govern physics are universal.
  2. Understanding these rules, allow intelligent beings have the ability to alter their surroundings.
  3. Anything that can be is at some point in time, if the universe is infinite.
Which lead to this conclusion, based on the rules above that at some point some intelligent beings will create artificial intelligence. The question obvious to most individuals is not if it will happen, but how. Here is what I would predict based on my knowledge and ideas triggered from a previous post,

The question I was posed the other day was, “When and what was the basis of the first novel thought?”

My answer is this:

“The consolidation of every rule that governs the universe, from the basic rules of gravity, electromagnetism, the bending of space-time, and the principles that form atoms; to RNA and DNA, to the neurons, and to our brains. Every law that governs the universe compounded to create intelligence, and therefore any and all novel thoughts.”

http://lettergram.org/a-novel-thought/

Due to the fact that our universe is governed by specific rules it is only a matter of time before A.I. does make its first appearance into the human realm and with time has an ever increasing probability that it will do so. Taking a step back from the world at present for a moment and it should be clear to everyone that there are more computers being used, produced, sold, every day. With that in mind, there are new computer programs, faster hardware, larger hard drives, the world always has new technologies and is always growing into something more advanced and more capable.

Yet, still there is no self-constructing program, able to learn, create new thoughts, reproduce, make large abstract assumptions, and rewrite and correct itself all in one. There are perhaps many programs capable of learning and reproducing, but not fix themselves or make assumptions, but not reproduce; the search for artificial intelligence is one that has come to the point where it feels as though it is the search for the famous “missing link,” where we (as a race) are looking for something in particular that fits our construct of intelligence. What if we instead took a further step back from the world and look at it as though it were an evolutionary process, where right now A.I. was merely in the stage where we cannot fully see what it is we are attempting to construct. Perhaps in order to create artificial intelligence we must create a program capable of evolution and simply stimulate it, give it the building blocks of a universe (in this case the laws that would govern computers), and simply watch it evolve.

Attempting to create a program that is inherently intelligent is asinine, we first must create a program with several simple fundamental traits to consider it alive:

  •  Ability to growth
  • Reproduction
  • Active
  • Able to React to Stimulus
  • Able to retain information
  • Able to pass on information in some manner
These six key traits that will allow a computer to evolve into something more may seem simple or obvious to many, however the larger idea is this: All of these traits have to be placed into a system with a virtually unlimited capacity for change, which by writing a program inherently causes a limited capacity for change.

 

Which leads to the final point, the only way in which to create artificial intelligence (which would be in any way not be reliant on us) would be to develop some sort of primordial soup for computers. Where some system of laws (much like the laws of physics) allow for the natural creation of intelligence, which in turn could not really be deemed artificially intelligence at all because it came into its existence on its own accord.

 

Making the only possible option to create “artificial intelligence” (if the premise is correct) is to create a system in which some how a computer program can come into existence, evolve, and actually form into a sentient being of its own accord. Lucky cybernetic organisms will likely do that considerably faster than biological organisms, based on the speed at which computers can function, however the problem remains and will remain (for the foreseeable future), how to create this “primordial soup” capable of creating intelligence (or life really).