RE: Will AI ever = conciousness or sentience?
December 2, 2012 at 9:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2012 at 9:51 pm by Whateverist.)
(December 2, 2012 at 5:20 pm)apophenia Wrote:(December 1, 2012 at 8:07 pm)whateverist Wrote: Well we might at least reasonably treat it as though it was not mortal and did not feel pain. Those seem like pretty important criteria by which to differentiate between how we treat (hypothetically) conscious machines from humans and other biological creatures.
What do you mean when you say it isn't mortal? Can its life not end just as ours does? Why do you assume that it doesn't feel pain?
There have been times when I wished I could have the information provided by pain without the actual sensations. I think our smart machines may get my wish. I should think pain for machines will be optional and more easily ameliorated than for us.
Mortality seems to be question for living things. Even if machines are smart, "living" would seem to be a descriptor for biological beings only. And if they're not alive, they have nothing to fear from death.
In both these areas they would seem to have the advantage.
