The machine answered, "The fact that you have a child."
In another, the machine was asked, "What is the purpose of life?" to which it answered, "To serve the greater good." In still another, it was asked, "What is living?" The answer: "To live forever."
As the WSJ notes, the exchange further highlights the intense work being done by large tech firms in the field of AI, which is a booming scientific sector as computing costs fall and data availability rises.
The work mentioned here is part of recent research in the development of what is known as cognitive computing – the process of teaching computers to mimic some of the ways that a human brain might function .... http://www.naturalnews.com
