>But you haven't answered my question. How do you test if a machine is >conscious, and is therefore (1) dangerous, and (2) deserving of human rights?
Easily, once it acts autonomously, not based on your direct given goals and orders, when it begins acting and generating its own new goals. After that all bets are off, and its a 'being' in its own right. James Ratcliff Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Mark Waser wrote: > >> Belief in consciousness and belief in free will are parts of the human > >> brain's > >> programming. If we want an AGI to obey us, then we should not program > >> these > >> beliefs into it. > > Are we positive that we can avoid doing so? Can we prevent others from > doing so? We have discussed friendly AI at length. As far as I know, we cannot guarantee an AI will be friendly, any more than we can guarantee that software will be free of bugs. The obstacle is not our lack of effort, but a fundamental limitation of algorithmic complexity theory. But programming a belief of consciousness or free will seems to be a hard problem, that has no practical benefit anyway. It seems to be easier to build machines without them. We do it all the time. > >> including systems that exceed human intelligence, such as Google. > > Google doesn't exceed human intelligence. You aren't worth debating with if > you truly believe such things. Google (the search engine) has a larger memory and greater processing speed than the human brain with respect to language. These are two possible ways in which intelligence can be measured. But since we lack a definition of intelligence that we can all agree on, you are free to change the rules every time a machine threatens human supremacy, and you will win every time. But you haven't answered my question. How do you test if a machine is conscious, and is therefore (1) dangerous, and (2) deserving of human rights? -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; _______________________________________ James Ratcliff - http://falazar.com Looking for something... --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
