2015-10-27 17:29 GMT+01:00 John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Quentin Anciaux <allco...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >>> >> >>> If it is *FULLY* >>> disconnected from the physical world >>> then what sort of computer is the AI running on, and what is >>> generating the virtual reality environment? >>> >> >> > >> If no sensor of the real world write anything at all in the memory >> available to the AI program... then how on earth does the fact it runs on a >> physical computer matter ? >> > > > Matter always matters. >
I repeat if there is *absolutely no sensors writing **any** information in a *memory location* readable by the AI program how can that affect if ? how can it knows that external world ?* > > If it is FULLY > > disconnected from the physical world > so > > there is no processor > made of matter that obeys the laws of physics > and > no > memory > made of matter to write the outcome of a calculation > > to > then how on earth can > a > AI > > program *DO* anything? > That's not what I'm talking about, yes the AI program runs on a physical computer if you want, and stopping it, stops the program... but from the POV of the AI program, that physical world has no bearing on it nor even existence, as *nothing from it* absolutely *no information about that external world* is passed to it, so *how on earth could it knows it, be influenced by it* ? > > John K Clark > >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
