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And oh the fun that the ethics questions will become if this takes root and if the brains somehow show a level of consciousness in the future.
by sukuriant 14y ago
And oh the fun that the ethics questions will become if this takes root and if the brains somehow show a level of consciousness in the future.
- sp332 14y agoIt's already aware of its surroundings, and can respond to its environment.
- sukuriant 14y agosentience then
- icebraining 14y agoAn instance of Nginx can also respond to its environment, but I wouldn't call it sentient.
- sukuriant 14y agoprecisely. So, then replace 'consciousness' with 'sentience' in my original proposition. I am not saying response to an environment is sentience; but, when using living brain tissue, there may be a chance that these computers will eventually display sentience.
- thinkingisfun 14y agoI saw this documentary yesterday (which had a VERY interesting sequence about those rat neurons flying planes, interviewing one of their "fathers" ^^). It is about the future, AI and transhumanism, called TechnoCalyps, which despite the title is actually rather good. It's on youtube, too.. so if you have 3 hours to spare.. it is sure to make you think about a whole range of subjects. IMHO these things cannot be considered in isolation. We as society should really start talking about our progress and where we want to go, instead of a few people being into it, the rest feeling threatened. We can do better, and we surely have to the tools for it.
- sukuriant 14y agoVery awesome. I'll look into watching this later! Thanks for the headsup :D
- dsrguru 14y agoI was thinking the same thing. Prior to reading the article [from 2004???], I assumed a Matrix-style scenario would be impossible because robots can't become sentient. But I'm not so sure that's true anymore if we're replacing NAND gates with brain cells...