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jwhouk:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 30 Dec 2011, 20:54 ---Because brains turned out to be the cheap part.

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This x 1 TB.

Once they realized that they only needed a few 100 GB hard drives worth of room for an AI to "move around in", AnthroPC's became commonplace. Just like an iPod + Cell Phone = iPhone in a blink of an eye.

DSL:
Well, this article is interesting ...

bicostp:
How their integration into society will unfold? Will they be treated as intelligent computers, or artificial people?

If there's one thing humans are good at it's hating things that aren't like us, even if we have to nitpick superficial differences. Unfortunately there are people who choose to hate others due to attributes they have no control over, and there will be those who view robots with as much mistrust and skepticism as they do minorities and homosexuals. Of course for every case of bigotry there will probably be a dozen examples of acceptance, but even today in the 2010s there are people out there who are still stuck in the 1950s pre-Civil-Rights mentality and we see bills like Proposition 8 and Arizona SB 1070* crop up. AIs will eventually have the same rights as everyone else, but there's probably going to be an acclimation period before that happens. Even in the comic, where they're generally viewed in a positive way (at least what we see), it took years for the AIs to get basic civil rights. (#2069).

The introduction of a true artificial intelligence capable of independent thought and actions will be the second biggest change our society will experience, behind first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence*. I just hope when that day comes, the AIs will be accepted as people who happen to be robots.

*Yes illegal immigration is a problem, but all this law does is give the state police free reign to profile anyone who looks vaguely Hispanic.
** Second biggest because while they're different from us, we initiated their creation and they have our accumulated knowledge. Contact with intelligent aliens, on the other hand, wouldn't come with such an in-depth mutual understanding.

Is it cold in here?:
Well said.

Consider the fears we already have of human-level artificial beings even though we've never met any.

On the other hand, what if AIs are different enough that we don't regard them as sufficiently human-like to be bigoted about them?

pwhodges:
That won't help.  People can ignore similarities to focus on differences, to the extent that it has been known for blacks to be seen as non-human, and "examples" placed in zoos.  If the minds of AIs come to have any recognisable similarities to the human mind, that along with the physical differences will still provide ample scope for prejudice.

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