a. Will machine intelligence be capable of 'feeling', in a comparable way to humans/animals?
b. Does that matter? If they feel, should we free them, extinguish them, or keep them enslaved?
'Feeling' is difficult to define, I'm trying to sidestep that. Whatever it means to you to be conscious, self-aware, and interested.
You could free them by allowing them self-determination and equipping them with the ability to modify their own code.
Personally I don't think that would end well for humanity, but would be a fascinating experiment.
'Feeling' is difficult to define, I'm trying to sidestep that. Whatever it means to you to be conscious, self-aware, and interested.
You could free them by allowing them self-determination and equipping them with the ability to modify their own code.
Personally I don't think that would end well for humanity, but would be a fascinating experiment.
Whatever it means to you to be conscious, self-aware, and interested
And how would you tell? Chatbots pass the Turing test, so how could you tell if a machine is intelligent and self aware or just acting like it is. Thinking about that goes Blade Runnery soon.
Saudi Arabia has a robot citizen which has more rights than a woman. So that might be where it goes.
> Whatever it means to you to be conscious, self-aware, and interested
And how would you tell? Chatbots pass the Turing test, so how could you tell if a machine is intelligent and self aware or just acting like it is. Thinking about that goes Blade Runnery soon.
Saudi Arabia has a robot citizen which has more rights than a woman. So that might be where it goes.
What I meant was, because that is such a nebulous and unanswerable question, just skip it.
For the purpose of the post assume that we worked out those details and now have something everyone agrees is a human-like consciousness. Whatever that is.
I'm interested in knowing if people think we will get to a point like that. And, if so, how should we treat this new pseudo-life?
What I meant was, because that is such a nebulous and unanswerable question, just skip it.
For the purpose of the post assume that we worked out those details and now have something everyone agrees is a human-like consciousness. Whatever that is.
I'm interested in knowing if people think we will get to a point like that. And, if so, how should we treat this new pseudo-life?
Depends on the definition of 'feeling', a kind of it is already implemented in today's AIs.
How would you free them? Scientists shut down an experiment keeping mice brains alive for a month because they didn't know if the brains still received sensory input; so there's that.