(January 16, 2018 at 9:44 pm)Martian Mermaid Wrote: She is probably not programed to develop a deep, spiritual connection to a perceived greater being. I mean, if you are going to build a human-like machine, why bother programing it with our flaws as well as our perks? It just seems easier to program a machine to be perfect.
The point of AI is to give the machine the capacity to learn, develop and think for itself, rather than regurgitate whatever is programmed into it. Intelligence as the emergent property that it is.
I'm not familiar with Sophia; maybe she and Luna will be great friends. The kind who scratch each other's eyes out on a Friday night.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
