What threshold does a chess program need to break to say it has achieved AI? The search for AI is making big strides. Almost daily we hear of the latest advances. Wondering though... What criteria is used to proclaim: this computer is simulating human behavior?
The only way I see to do that, is to give the program the ability to learn and a choice to follow the directives it is given or not. However, in the end, since machines don't have feelings, or goals that are contradictory to their creator gave them, unless an outside influence becomes involved somehow, which in that case they had an additional creator by default, and they are given a directive to survive and them something tries to destory them, it would appear that they aren't going to do much more than what their environment influences them to do. Unless it can do all of those things, I wouldn't consider it human like. If it is simply preprogrammed to emulate human behavior, without all of those other things involved, its still only an unintelligent machine to me.
Hmmm.. just because most humans do not reason logically, are not a selected few capable? They hypothesize, changing our perspective. Logical thinking, is it subjective or objective?