Computers that function like the human brain could soon become a reality thanks to new research using optical fibres made of speciality glass. The research, published in Advanced Optical Materials, has the potential to allow faster and smarter optical computers capable of learning and evolving.

And i desire the number 1 and 2 to be looped 3 times in a row like : 121212

Is it unlikely i can get a rng generator from generating that number reliably... the simple answer is it wont generate that number reliably, the program wont learn anything and so on and so on, haveing more prossessors to work whit that can eventualy determine the average time it takes to generate my spesific number, and then set it in context if X is true then display number..

and this is exacly the same if im talking about walking or getting up from falling Down, while robot is not in stationary position, attemt to get up, by moveing randomly around, eventualy the outcome is raw data about what the gyroscopes direction is, XYZ, where the lims\legs were at those times, and what is the fastest way to get to stationary position... robot didnt learn anything, and what worked onec doesnt work again in all conditions even if it fell same way as Things can be in way, and so on and so on.. again it all comes Down to programing a dynamic way of getting up, ditto the right way to walk, depending on load... but eventualy you just end up whit a clutter of data that wont work everytime, and usualy haveing a prossessor running all the time to do attemts to get up in standing positions isnt Worth the input of energy, and it still isnt more Advanced ai, even if you combind ALL the other prossess that needs to take Place.

Example a combat AI in terms of actual real combat if one was to construct a robot right now, it not only have to focuse on getting up, but maybe to avoid getting shot and so on as its a easyer target while lying Down, so you would have a more addaptive prossess where one is focusing on getting up and you have one focuseing on dodgeing where it may have to use extra force to make a roll and attemt to stand up at the end of the roll.. now we have 2 prosseesses that needs to work together...

BUT still and all that we still havent developed anything that isnt just run by programing that we have intended, it does not think for itself, it is a program...

i could go on but im feeling im just writeing a wall of text to sombody who doesnt understand the prossess behind this.

We today, do not have a consept of even free will, even us humans are just following bio prossesses or Chemicals in Our brain that favours Things, and the thing that decides we have no means of creating or and we dont even have a consept of how to make a choise, exept artifical situations, and events we allready have made up.. like the one i made up in combat..

The robot itself isnt in combat, its just doing it Programming, and doing the Things i set as goals, Dodge bullets and get up, and those induvidual Things were just built up by attemting Things til it worked and use that data (even if it was unsufficent for every situation) (not to mention Things may be blocking it from useing same direction, and maybe low enough roof for it never to get up thus stuck in a loop)... ( and i can even bet all the robots we have heard about such as the ones in japan, i bet that those will have problems if they fell Down and the roof wasnt high enough to get back up in their New location.. i bet they will just keep trying and keep trying as they dont have the function to assert New situations such as low roof, and their goal is simply to get up, even tought the roof is a unmoveable force, unlike simply tripping and getting a twig between the legs that prevents the random attemting to get up but will eventualy get up when it moves so the twig falls away... it will simply never THINK, it has a goal, it has to get up....

THE BOTTOM POINT IS WE have to think of all the situations beforehand, how to deal whit them, how to make the robot check if there is a roof or something above it thats blocking it from getting up, or maybe it cant get up maybe thers glue or damaged parts.. and so on and so on... WE do the thinking and decideing, we made the goal post...

its hard for me to Write in English as its not my native Language, but hopefully this will make you understand... we simply still do not have anything smart in a sence of intelligence, we just have smart Products that do the Things we setup for them to do, usualy in pre defined conditions of its surrounding too.

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