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When will that computer learn the concept of "self"? It doesn't matter, as long as they didn't program it with the instinct of self-preservation...
by danmaz74 13y ago
When will that computer learn the concept of "self"? It doesn't matter, as long as they didn't program it with the instinct of self-preservation...
- samatman 13y agoWhat if it emerges? For instance, the computer can be programmed with the notion of "doing things with or for" something. What do you do with or for a self? Preserve it.
- Shog9 13y ago"Google, shut down the Reader service." "I'm sorry Eric, I'm afraid I can't do that."
- danmaz74 13y agoOur instincts emerged from billions of years of natural selection, and they work at a much deeper level than our logical thinking. The idea that intelligent computers would start from logical thinking and then develop human emotions and instincts doesn't have any basis besides our natural - I would say instinctual :) - tendency to anthropomorphism.
- coopdog 13y agoSelf preservation is just a selection function. I personally think that all it'll take is a mutating algorithm that can pay for its own hosting by somehow acquiring money and a self preserving algorithm like human intellect could eventually emerge