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Shemsi en Tehuti · (#2 (**permalink**))

Western computing is far away from that kind of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We already have the ability to store massive amounts of information, search it, and even sort it by some "relevancy" criteria. However, the state of AI can be chalked up as just sophisticated information search and retrieval algorithms.

In my opinion, technology has to get out of the binary realm before it can begin to truly reason. All commercial electronics at its core is the transistor, which is still a decades old binary technology. As for right now, everything must be in black or white for AI systems right now. They cannot deal with the "gray", or for the Computer Science nerds, it cannot deal with something outside of its Knowledge Base (usually just a fancy database).

True reasoning comes not from a fixed set of logic circuits (which operate in a binary fashion), but in deciphering the "gray" into useful information. We just simply aren't there yet.