Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3236 - 3240 (6-10 June 2016)
blt:
All the discussion about AIs aside, is anyone else getting the feeling that there's something bothering Faye more than just existential dread? Like her responses seem to indicate she's in a poor mood for some other reason.
brasca:
--- Quote from: blt on 10 Jun 2016, 10:13 ---All the discussion about AIs aside, is anyone else getting the feeling that there's something bothering Faye more than just existential dread? Like her responses seem to indicate she's in a poor mood for some other reason.
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It's not all that easy to tell with Faye. She seems as surly as usual.
Kugai:
At least they haven't gone Borg on them
QuestionableIntentions:
My take on conciousness is that it's beginning is "simply" a meta layer of reasoning about your own reasoning. Any being, machine or otherwise, that reflects on it's own thought porocess shows a degree of conscioussnes. It also shows intelligence in so far as it can improve it's own actions.
And, however you define intelligent, you don't have intelligence without the ability to improve itself, to learn.
anahata:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 10 Jun 2016, 08:08 ---Today's experimental driverless cars, for example, use a kind of cheat in that they have access to massive map databases which allow them to avoid having to process the large majority of their input data, and instead focus only on whatever is novel in whatever they are getting from their sensor arrays. Humans (and mobile animals) don't do this, at least not as a primary strategy.
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I'm not buying that. Humans rely on either knowing where they are going because they've gone there before and remember the route, or they use maps, or somebody gives them verbal directions (and GPS is a combination of the last two). Self driving cars have a map because it's their only means of navigation; all the logic for avoiding obstacles and staying on the road is based on immediate sensory input. It couldn't be any other way.
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