RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience?
November 28, 2012 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2012 at 1:46 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 28, 2012 at 1:31 pm)jonb Wrote: What use could a self aware being be to you? if you made an intelligence which was self aware, why would it not be selfish?What a strange charge, so human, to levy against something decidedly not human. Don't you think? Nevertheless, human beings are selfish, they're still "useful to me".
Quote: So the drive would be to create a thing that you could control, and as such it would be a tool, unless it was self aware in which case, it would not see the situation necessary from your point of view.The most common thread in Sci Fi of this sub-genre, yes. In my personal opinion, if I knew a way to create AI that was my equal or superior (not just a tool) I can't imagine how I could avoid doing it..if only to show that I could. On a similar note we "create children" who we hope will develop into our superiors (some of us put alot of effort into making this so), we have no reasonable expectations of control over these children (beyond a point..granted) and they often fail to see situations from our point of view. Yet we still do it (hell, some of us seem to enjoy it).
Quote:In which caseIn which case we have a problem, yes. However, if Bender wants to rule, there will be some bodies he'll have to step over to get to that throne. The situation would be the same for a human being (or group of human beings) looking to "rule". Isaac Asimov handled this with his notion of "prime directives" (notions which he smuggled into all of his stories unintentionally at first, btw...there were tons of stories about murderous robots at the time and maybe he just wanted his to be different)
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