I want to create an artificial intelligence that will help humans solve the world’s problems. I am serious, but I have not proper degree of programming expertice. Ideally, I would like to coordinate the efforts of a team of programmers.

The first step would be to create an engine that can receive queries, understand the meaning of the query, and search its data bank to find an answer. This has been done by others to a certain degree, but as far as I know, they aren’t nearly intelligent enough.

The engine would also have to be able to read English documents to glean information, and organize that information in its data bank, just like a human reads and learns. You’d then have to feed it all kinds of history texts, science, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and current events.

Once the engine is able to read, learn, understand, and regurgitate information, then it needs the ability to draw its own original conclusions based on existing data. This is probably the hardest part. It also needs to be able to weigh choices, and predict future chains of events based on any particular choice.

This is over-simplified, but when you were finished, you’d be able to ask it a question like “How should we overhaul Social Security?” It would generate a list of all the conceivable choices, then eliminate the ones with the most severe forseeable consequences. Whatever was left over would be best choice.

In short, this is something that nobody has come close to achieving, but I believe it’s possible to do better than everyone else has. I also believe that if someone was able to achieve all of these goals, it would be quite easy to avoid the death and destruction displayed in movies such as Terminator and The Matrix.