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At what point is an entity sufficiently advanced enough that what makes it up isn't considered artificial any longer? How are we not just sufficiently advanced
by xemoka 12y ago
At what point is an entity sufficiently advanced enough that what makes it up isn't considered artificial any longer? How are we not just sufficiently advanced biological robots? We don't consider ourselves artificial, yet we respond to stimulus and react to it according to the programming of our DNA and "mind" (nature + nurture).
If artificial is a designation meaning that it is created by humans, or another entity to serve a purpose, then what happens when that created AI has the ability to choose to create something itself? This "artificial intelligence" designation only works when a "creator" is trying to create an intelligence, then once it exists and propagates on its own, isn't it an "intelligence" of its own right?
- unclebucknasty 12y agoMy thoughts as well. Reminds me of another discussion within the last week or so, wherein someone rejected the idea that we're living in a sim. My thought was, "a simulation versus what?" What makes our Universe a simulation or not a simulation? How does one define "simulation"? It's kind of an artificial construct based on our acceptance of the current "reality" as somehow possessing this amorphous quality of "realness" in the first place.