The Possibility of AI

Is AI possible? Man has often thought of creating “thinking” machines. Machines that could think for themselves and act like humans. If we look at humans as programs, we can see that we can interact with external things, as well as think for ourselves. This is because we can “make our own programming.” Humans are self-aware and as a result acknowledge their own existence as well as others’. Machines on the other hand, cannot “make their own programming” and therefore, must rely on predefined algorithms. With today’s technology, we are only able to create sentient programs, programs that follow their instructions and only their instructions. For example, any given decision has predefined outcomes; the actions a program can take can be predicted. A human however, may act on impulse.
Machines are not self-aware, they do not acknowledge themselves as a separate thinking entity. And thus, with today’s current technology, there is no chance of us making a true AI system. W...