Speculations: 3 – Artificial Intelligence

In recent times, many theorists have speculated on the possibility of the creation of some sort of artificially created intelligence, that is, some form of intelligence which has been manufactured instead of developed through organic evolution. They have considered various ways artificial intelligence could manifest itself, though most of them are related through some development with computers, whether or not such intelligence will be found contained within a computer, or some sort of machine with a computer brain (like an android). What is difficult is to determine when such intelligence has been developed. What would constitute such an intelligence? Many, if not most, suggest that it is when the construct is said to be self-aware, and through that self-awareness, has developed some sort of free will so that it can interact with the world, not through necessity such as is found in coding, but through its own transcendent initiative.