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Poll: Will artificial intelligence ever achieve true sentience?
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There are good reasons to think this will never happen.
11.11%
3 11.11%
I can't prove it but absolutely not. The idea of artificial sentience is absurd..
11.11%
3 11.11%
There is no telling what the future may hold. It's a coin flip.
14.81%
4 14.81%
Yes, smart machines are trending in that direction already.
44.44%
12 44.44%
Absolutely yes and I can describe to you the mechanisms which make it possible in principle.
7.41%
2 7.41%
Other. (Please explain.)
11.11%
3 11.11%
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Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience?
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RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience?
(November 28, 2012 at 11:12 am)whateverist Wrote: Even so, I am not impressed that we are very close at all to understanding how conscious beings work.

Yeah we're really not. We might be able to create machines that can simulate consciousness but that in no way means we are close to creating machines with consciousness.

If it ever happens that we do achieve such a feat, it will be hundreds of years in the future.
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Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Whateverist - November 28, 2012 at 1:28 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Voltron - November 28, 2012 at 2:02 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Minimalist - November 28, 2012 at 2:09 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by JohnDG - November 28, 2012 at 3:33 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Rayaan - November 28, 2012 at 4:45 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Whateverist - November 28, 2012 at 11:12 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Napoléon - November 28, 2012 at 1:44 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Napoléon - November 28, 2012 at 1:41 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Darkstar - November 28, 2012 at 10:27 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Whateverist - November 28, 2012 at 10:58 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by LastPoet - November 28, 2012 at 11:00 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 28, 2012 at 11:34 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 28, 2012 at 11:53 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 28, 2012 at 11:44 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 28, 2012 at 1:31 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Napoléon - November 28, 2012 at 1:53 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Whateverist - November 28, 2012 at 11:11 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - November 28, 2012 at 4:27 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Rayaan - November 28, 2012 at 6:33 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 28, 2012 at 7:37 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 28, 2012 at 9:45 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Tiberius - November 29, 2012 at 4:44 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 29, 2012 at 7:07 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - November 29, 2012 at 1:55 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Whateverist - November 29, 2012 at 11:10 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by DoktorZ - November 29, 2012 at 5:24 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 29, 2012 at 8:20 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by DoktorZ - November 29, 2012 at 10:01 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Ryantology - November 29, 2012 at 2:55 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - November 29, 2012 at 3:07 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Ryantology - November 29, 2012 at 3:16 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 29, 2012 at 6:56 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - December 2, 2012 at 5:20 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Napoléon - December 2, 2012 at 9:15 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Ryantology - December 2, 2012 at 10:20 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Cato - November 29, 2012 at 6:43 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - November 29, 2012 at 7:41 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by DoktorZ - November 30, 2012 at 8:38 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by genkaus - November 30, 2012 at 8:17 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by genkaus - December 4, 2012 at 12:50 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - November 30, 2012 at 8:43 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by DoktorZ - December 3, 2012 at 4:12 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - December 3, 2012 at 5:22 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by DoktorZ - December 3, 2012 at 9:58 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by DoktorZ - December 3, 2012 at 10:37 am
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Angrboda - December 1, 2012 at 4:46 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by jonb - December 3, 2012 at 8:59 pm
RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience? - by Aegrus - December 3, 2012 at 10:26 pm

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