RE: morality is subjective and people don't have free will
May 17, 2017 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2017 at 3:29 pm by Aroura.)
Thanks you so far for the answers. 
Ok, if free-will is based on the ability to think and rationalize, do advanced computer programs have free-will? Or can they ever, in the future?
For instance, Watson.
When it was playing Jeopardy!, the programmers could guess the answers, but there guesses were often wrong. What I mean is, even though they created Watson, they could not predict his behavior with 100% accuracy (nor anything near it).
Essentially, Watson was created in order to think up creative solutions to tricky problems and questions. It must "chose" what it thinks is the best option or answer based on the information and programming it has, but it still choses.
So, does Watson have free will? Since he is choosing from a multiple selection of possible answers? Or is he just responding to his programming in unexpected ways, due to the complexity of his programming and the information he has access to?
Ok, if free-will is based on the ability to think and rationalize, do advanced computer programs have free-will? Or can they ever, in the future?
For instance, Watson.
When it was playing Jeopardy!, the programmers could guess the answers, but there guesses were often wrong. What I mean is, even though they created Watson, they could not predict his behavior with 100% accuracy (nor anything near it).
Essentially, Watson was created in order to think up creative solutions to tricky problems and questions. It must "chose" what it thinks is the best option or answer based on the information and programming it has, but it still choses.
So, does Watson have free will? Since he is choosing from a multiple selection of possible answers? Or is he just responding to his programming in unexpected ways, due to the complexity of his programming and the information he has access to?
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― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
