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WCDT Strips 3306 - 3310 (12th to 16th September 2016)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: JimC on 12 Sep 2016, 03:48 ---
--- Quote from: oddtail on 12 Sep 2016, 02:10 ---On top of that, if an AI created a device that no science can adequately explain, there's ten different reasons why this special device would not be crammed into consumer electronics.
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Not quite convinced, consider the work that's been done on genetic algorithms and evolved circuits - eg Thompson http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50.9691&rep=rep1&type=pdf . There's a possible line of development there.
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Thanks for the link, JimC! Good reading!
My former coworkers at Nokia told me that story. When they reached the punchline in the end, and told the bit about how removing totally disconnect parts of the circuitry made it malfunction, I recall being impressed at first and a bit skeptical later. After all, it would have been very much in character for them trying to put a fast one by a math guy largely ignorant about EE. Not unlike other rookie tricks: "remember to lube the muffler bearings" or "you go fetch the keys to the trebuchet shooting range".
St.Clair:
I just want to point out that we, in real life, can also create consciousness without knowing how it works. It usually takes about nine months, followed by a decade or two of training the resulting neural net to full personhood.
Kugai:
The hand of power :-D
Coffee comes directly from the Gods - it's that simple.
hedgie:
--- Quote ---"It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes, the shakes become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion."
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Mentat fuel that stuff is.
Akima:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 12 Sep 2016, 03:48 ---I don't think it's prejudice, anymore, to be all "I'm surrounded by technology that I have no idea how it works and what it might do".
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Since we are all surrounded by people of whom it is equally true that we don't know how they work, and what they might do, I think it would qualify as prejudice if we applied different standards to AI sentient beings.
The issue of battery-safety is a real one though, and has come up with proposed technologies (sodium sulphur batteries, for example) in our world. However, it's important not to apply different, neophobic standards to new technologies from those we apply to ones we live with every day. I'm pretty sure that if someone proposed today a transport technology involving motor-cars driving around under unreliable guidance, with a tankful of highly inflammable, and in some circumstances explosive, liquid fuel, we would declare it too unsafe to be allowed.
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