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

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:41:06 05/13/02

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On May 12, 2002 at 15:41:52, Jerry Jones 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 ?
>>
>>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
>
>Yes, I wanted to hear Dr.Hyatt's and other experts' opinion but the replies are
>a little off the main issue :
>Will there ever be computers like Hall 9000 that have human-like consciousness ?
>Or will computers always be soulless machines and act unconsciously ?

With the current way we make computers; using a microchip it is impossible
to create any form of human intelligence IMHO.

>JJ



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