If i-Que really isn an A.I., then why does he seem to be so smart?
Machines can be programmed to emulate certain types of things that we often take for granted such as intelligence and communication. We already are familiar with phone menu systems that talk and sometimes even understand our own words. They then use that input to do another task. Just as you use the mouse to click on an icon which tells the computer to open a program. The computer isn’t ‘smart’ even though it knew what program to open. It’s just part of the programming. What makes i-Que seem so marvelous is that his computer can process many different types of input (like bumps, sound of your voice, information from his communicator) and has a lot of programming and databases to make the robot react to these inputs. The more complex the program and actions, the more it appears to be intelligent, even if it is not. We still are a ways off from having genuinely intelligent electronic robots in our homes. However, i-Que and other robots like him are paving the way.
