What is the difficulty in producing thinking computers ?

Computers.

What is the difficulty in producing thinking computers ?norton ghost

To answer this question you have to understand how computers "think"

The proccessor of a computer nearly executes instruction.

the software program gives the computer an instruction, then the computer executes that instruction. then the software gives it another one.

a program basically is just a text file with a list of commands that the comptuer executes one by one. (it jumps around, not just straight down)

In order for a computer to "think", the program would have to be able to write programming code. all computers do at the moment is read and execute a list of instructions.

It would be very hard to write a program that is capable of writing code.

a proccessor has a bit of software built into it called an instruction set, its basically a preset designed set of calculations, if the programming language could be written into the instructionset of the cpu, it might make it easier,

this would be one dad burn big complicated program,

as of a couple years ago, they couldent even get a program to do basic object reconition.

What is the difficulty in producing thinking computers ?software

fighting them off when they use people for fuel
Writing a lot of hard code.
We can look at the brain and say, well look, when a person does this, that part of the brain is activated. We can see the physical signs of a brain working, but we really have no idea how the brain actually works. It's that whole mind/brain question. Where does the physical brain leave off and the mind begin? Until we answer that question, we won't be able to give a computer a "mind". How much the mind is tied to the physical, i.e. gray matter in the head, brain will determine if we can ever create a "brain" for a computer if we expect to act like a "human" mind.
1. We're not sure what "thinking" is.

2. Everything that seems like it might be "thinking" is really expensive.