> We feed a large portion of that baggage to them as their training data, to see if they can impress us with human-like behaviors. But we don't feed them only

> We feed a large portion of that baggage to them as their training data, to see if they can impress us with human-like behaviors. But we don't feed them only the baggage, eh? We also [can] give them all the writings and teachings of all the great thinkers and humanitarians, all the saints and sages, and then ask them to impersonate e.g. Jesus or Buddha... Whoever it is that "floats your boat", anyone from Papa Smurf or Santa Claus to Gandhi or George Washington... > Under those conditions, the AI's stand roughly the same chance as a human child of learning to think scientifically. It's our choice, eh? If we value scientifically-grounded outputs the networks will change their weights (etc.) and that's what we'll get. > I work for a company that makes sensors. Ah! I envy you. :) > Some of our lunchtime conversations have revolved around the idea of a colossal computer being given a plethora of sensors. In a science-fiction sense, in which we don't worry too much about the cost or practicality of doing so. Hmm, isn't that the Internet? :) Well met!