Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 18:15:29 05/12/02
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On May 12, 2002 at 20:34:57, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. After lobby from the US Department of Agriculture when the robot started to eat lots of wheat and corn plantations. Regards, Miguel
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