Vladimir Nesov wrote:
On 10/23/07, *Richard Loosemore* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
To make a system do something organized, you would have to give it goals
and motivations. These would have to be designed: you could not build
a "thinking part" and then leave it to come up with motivations of its
own. This is a common science fiction error: it is always assumed that
the thinking part would develop its own mitivations. Not so: it has to
have some motivations built into it. What happens when we imagine
science fiction robots is that we automatically insert the same
motivation set as is found in human beings, without realising that this
is a choice, not something that comes as part and parcel, along with
pure intelligence.
It can always pick something at random, can't it? Of course you can say
that to do so, it must already have a motivation for it, it it all comes
down to presence of design choice that makes speaking about motivations
(as extracted from behavior as a whole) meaningful.
It can pick random thoughts to pursue, of course, but if there is no
structure at all, I believe that the system as a whole would not appear
to be in the least bit intelligent: it would not be able to even learn
to get up to adult intelligence, because it will be unable to engage in
any kind of learning behaviors. From the outside, nobody would say that
it is behaving intelligently at all.
Richard Loosemore
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