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Robots and love
Is it cold in here?:
It was the newspost for strip 1658.
Carl-E:
Thanks, fixed my post.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 05 Sep 2011, 23:23 ---It was the newspost for strip 1658.
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Oh, you HAD to mention that strip again, didn't you?
That's like the QC equivalent of Rickrolling. I officially dub it "Svenmomorolling".
DSL:
That name ships like a Great Lakes freighter. :evil:
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 02 Sep 2011, 06:22 ---
My issue is simply the claim that was started as early as computers have been known, that somehow making computers faster and more powerful they would turn into something else. Just read or watch 2001 for that one and check out the abilities of HAL 9000. Its more obvious in the book, the movie stays kind of vague about this.
Yet computers did no such thing. They only became faster and better able to store things. They did not turn sentient and show no sign to turn sentient in the near or distant future. Its simply not there. No matter how fast it is, its still just a mathematical calculator.
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The claim has never been that they would "become" something else. Computers programmed to surf the web (boy, I just dated myself) and run word processors aren't going to suddenly turn into Skynet. It's been that we would make them something else, and in doing so give them the power to do so themselves. We haven't. It's "simply not there" because we simply haven't put it there. It will take a human effort to create an AI unfettered enough to act like HAL or Pintsize, and to install the subroutines that control emotion. However, we've already done so, just that so far no one's managed to get certain patterns of thought fast enough to simulate human intelligence, and no one's given such a program the power to interact significantly with the real world. There's no theoretical problem with the first, only that we haven't figured out how to do it yet, and obviously the second could be changed today if anyone were stupid enough to hook a lab experiment up to the defense grid. Indeed, with fast enough hardware, the first obstacle could be surmounted by brute force.
"Just a mathematical calculator" is exactly what we've got, just hooked up to some chemical registers and I/O. Blather on about the soul all you like, but at the end of the day, we're just meaty, badly designed robots.
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