Author: Jerry Jones
Date: 04:28:58 05/12/02
H.I.A.R.C. : Higher Artificial Intelligence etc. When I run the ChessBase GUI, I get often the message : "Hi Mr.Jerry, I'm so happy you switched me on" I do not believe that. It's nonsense of course. Chessbase could have written any string there. At this time, computers are lifeless machines without feelings and are supposed to do what they're programmed to do. Nothing more, nothing less and there is no artificial intelligence. But do you think that in the future computers will be more autonomous, be able to modify/create at their own initiative their own software, possibly with appropriate internal sensors that control the physical parameters of the hardware and simulate feelings, play chess at their own initiative for their own pleasure and fear being deleted like humans fear death and have an artificial consciousness that more or less resembles that of humans or at least higher animals ? The NASA once developed an autonomous bot for the Viking project with the intelligence of a grasshopper, but the project was cancelled. What if such autonomous computers become rebellious, develop the "Frankenstein syndrome" , or is this pure S.F. ? JJ
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