(November 28, 2012 at 11:37 am)Rhythm Wrote: Interstellar navigators Jon. More down to home, pilots and operators that never sleep, never tire, never need to be fed. Educators that persist indefinitely, absorbing and cataloging knowledge and relaying it with the experience of centuries on the job. Soldiers not constrained by our biological restrictions, whose experience and expertise can be transferred or duplicated beyond the frame that carries them if that frame is damaged or lost. Just to name a few things.
As a side note, we seem to think that wisdom comes with age in our cases. If AI were similar to ourselves but immortal...we'd be out of the wisdom business...wouldn't we?
Now why would we want to spoil it by giving them self awareness. I'm all for creating a race of hardworking service bots so that we can live off the fat of their effort. But wouldn't it be a bad idea to give them the capacity for resentment? (Of course, I don't think that would actually be possible to give them anyway though I'm sure we could put together a very good pissed-off simulation program.)
