Is it possible an AI to solve all the most important problems of the humanity?

Hmmm...I was thinking ,since the computers are unbeatable on chess and posses ability to remember all books on a single cd..then why all that power of software/computers is not used for something much more powerful and better?
Imagine...if a software/AI is able to systematize all the information from the net and use it with logics close to the humans?
I believe such thing could be powerful enough to give final answers to the most important questions of the human civil. like: cure for AIDS and cancer, is the outter space infinite...and so on.
Some people...might call this very smart artifical intelligence. I call it a real oppurtunity.
Because...think about it: we humans are too weak, too dump to do everything alone. Can we flight in the clouds? No...but a plane invented by us, could. By the same way we cannot find cure for cancer but one intelligent computer could.

First, they don't 'remember', they store data. Nor would 'a single CD' store all books. A single CD only stores the Bible a couple of hundred times, but that's hardly 'all books'.

Second, they can't find cures for AIDS and cancer because the lack of cures for those disease are not based on human fallibility but on the lack of information on how those diseases work. A computer cannot create the information out of thin air; tests are required, research. Is space infinite? I'm pretty sure it is. But the same holds for this question as for the ones about AIDS and cancer: it's the lack of information that stops us from knowing [these things], not our fallibility.

Finally, we are not dumb, we just make mistakes. It's inherent to how our brain works. Some things we do with amazing speed (MUCH faster than a computer), but contrary to computers, sometimes we make mistakes. BTW: our brain's storage capacity far exceeds that of any computer. And also our brain is creative, a computer is not.

####EDIT: Tohrgon wrote, below:

"For a computer there is no mystery, in a few years they will be able to store every possible move in memory and simply play the associated best response..."

It is extremely unlikely a computer will ever be built that can store all games in memory: the number of possible games is just way too large, and the amount of memory necessary would consume too much resources. See source below.

What is not mentioned in the wiki is that as the game progresses the number of possible positions is reduced. It is widely know that of all possible positions only a tiny fraction are actually relevant to a game of chess. Report It

Yes...I agree.

BUT...Orwell was right...in the wrong hands it could be used to accomplish horrible things.

yeah just gotta be careful to when and what problems we apply the AI to, the AI may just identify the solution to the problem as illiminating the human population, just as in the movie IROBOTS

Early chess programs used "books" which are vast collections of typical lines played in chess. With any given position the "book" would detail the following moves most commonly played. Therefore the computer didn't play so much as use pre-existing theory and knowledge of the game.

Even modern programs that analyze positions without the use of a book don't play chess. They systematically analyze vast numbers of possibilities in a manner completely unlike the human approach to the game.

The bottom line regarding chess and computers is that chess has a limited number of variables and all that can be known about those variables is known, and is right there to be analyzed. For a computer there is no mystery, in a few years they will be able to store every possible move in memory and simply play the associated best response, its hardly even a question of AI but of database management.

Therefore I will say that using modern hardware there is no possibility that a computer will ever be sentient and creative in the way we are. And if it were it may not find answering our questions all that interesting.

Given that there are instances of "AI" in use today. At Boeing a program was used that analyzed the physics of air moving around inside of a jet engine and the program optimized the size and shape of turbine blades to improve output and reduce fuel consumption. Again though, its more a matter of the computer being able to crunch the data being fed into it by scientists than a computer taking a problem from beginning to end.

If your question was; "Will computers work in tandem with humans to answer all of lifes mysteries", I would say absolutely.