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> So you categorically reject the scenario of a machine "processing meaningless symbols" being harmful in any way? How does this follow from what I said? > Ho
by dmfdmf 11y ago
> So you categorically reject the scenario of a machine "processing meaningless symbols" being harmful in any way?
How does this follow from what I said?
> How does that follow from the Chinese Room experiment?
The implicit (philosophic) question behind the Chinese Room experiment is; where does meaning come from? What imbues meaning to the meaningless symbols that computers process\? This is an old, unanswered philosophic question. I implied it in my answer but I will make it explicit; it comes from our perceptual awareness of existence via the senses.
- ikeboy 11y ago> How does this follow from what I said? You said "humans are not threatened by the former". Not threatened implies that they can't be harmful. >The implicit (philosophic) question behind the Chinese Room experiment is; where does meaning come from? What imbues meaning to the meaningless symbols that computers process\? This is an old, unanswered philosophic question. I implied it in my answer but I will make it explicit; it comes from our perceptual awareness of existence via the senses. I don't see why that would imply anything at all about the safety of machines.
- Dylan16807 11y agoYou know we can give a computer senses super-easily, right?
- sampo 11y ago> where does meaning come from? I am sure humankind will be able to construct artificial intelligences long before we are able to answer to that question. And the AI's will also start to ponder that question, and they will make no more progress than we.