Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:34:57 05/12/02
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On May 12, 2002 at 07:28:58, Jerry Jones wrote: >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 ? I would never say "never". But I would say "it will probably be a _long_ time before this becomes reality..." > >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. ? Who knows. But it has fueled lots of sci fi books and movies. :) I could certainly see how a computer could "go berserk" after watching chess engines force the search into an area where the eval blows up and then things fall apart... > >JJ
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