Vodka said this in post #1 : I read a thread Intitled "We do exist or....dont we" and there was some disscussion about A.I. so I wanted to discuss it further.
A.I. is something that is already in exsistence, it is not something thing that may or may not be in the future. Right now there are computer programs that can hold a decent conversation with you. It will of course be vary basic. There is some online like this one http://alice.pandorabots.com/
I dont know how many people have had experience with A.I. like this but it is a small climpse into the future.
U WATCH THE MATRIX TO MUCH....
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Yeah I loved the first Matrix but that doesnt change the development in A.I. Im not saying that I believe humanity is threatend or will be by A.I. I believe that we will continue upon developing into a 1984 type of society.
Nevertheless it raises some interesting moral and scientific issues. What defines intelligence? What defines sentience? what defines life? What is the next step in natural evolution, or, if you prefer, what is god's will? AI may have some serious effects, and they're not dissmissable.
To be honest, AI (to varying degrees of intelligence and ability) has been present in things like video games for years now. When you play the computer in a single player game, nowadays, you are playing a bot that will react and to some degree, think, it's no longer an enemy that just paces until you come onto the screen and it shoots. They are now adaptive to the situation that they are in.
Wolf_eyes said this in post #21 : I'm a gamer, I get it. Nevetheless, my questions stand. Is the AI in my FF game sentient? Is the Xbox intelligent? etc, etc....
Well, dictionary.com says sentient is "Experiencing sensation or feeling."
So I really don't think that any artificial form of intelligence can be sentient. Not yet at least... I think to some degree that these programs (which are quite simple) are intelligent, they can recognize different conditions and will act accordinly. However, they are governed by the laws of their programs and the language that runs them. They will never be able to really make their own descisions, just follow the battleplan that was laid out for them in their programing.
Who needs an AI when we will eventually just digitize a human and build off of that? The only thing stopping it from happening now is that the partial mouse is running on the largest supercomputer ever built.
Imagine a human who is not a human. Imagine something like an ordinary poster who is not just patched into Google or a mathematics tool, but is actually running on the same machine. Just digitizing every last axon and dendrite would be an accomplishment right now, but it would be only the beginning...
Heck, make some backup copies, buy a good firewall, and it would be the invention of immortality.
11-29-2004 10:15 PM
