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Subject: Re: Artificial (un)intelligence / (un)conscious (Att. Dr.Hyatt)

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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