RE: We are no different than computers
April 23, 2015 at 4:50 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 4:54 am by Anomalocaris.)
(April 23, 2015 at 12:33 am)Nestor Wrote:(April 22, 2015 at 5:14 pm)bennyboy Wrote: My question is this. Is it safe therefore to ASSUME that something which behaves like an emotional human therefore has an actual mind and actual feelings? How do you tell the difference between an actually sentient being and one that might seem to be sentient, but really isn't? Should robots that can pass the Turing test be given human rights? Should disabling one count as murder?The Turing test, no. Allow me to introduce the Dostoevsky test. When an entire dictionary is uploaded into a computer's language program, and pressed to take some time to express its "emotions" and "thoughts," if it can return with a work that approaches The Brothers Karamazov, perhaps writing notes about the process and how it came up with the ideas or subplots on the side, it will have sufficiently convinced me. Shit, I'd be happy if it produced something akin to Genesis 1 or even Dr. Seuss. Come to think of it, has anyone tried to write a book via a computer that formulates from its own software meaningful and/or artful syntax?
Well, this is interesting:
http://singularityhub.com/2014/11/09/com...read-them/
You presume you can pass the Dostoevsky test?
Perhaps the big gap is not between your mind and computer, but between your mind and your concept of Dostoevsky.
