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RE: The Robots Are Coming: Real Laws For Synthetic Citizens?
As soon as one of these artificially intelligent machines expresses the desire to remain switched on, that for me is the point whereby the artificial facsimile, becomes real, honest-to-goodness life.
If it's an Ai and it 'expresses desire', it's just programming that is done to imitate and look to express desire - not actual desire.
I fail to understand the conundrum between biological life and a machine of any type.
Moral questions are not- cannot - be attributed to machines, it's only the projection of human beings doing it.
It's a a little like projecting a personality onto a dog or a cat. It's still just a dog or a cat. It will never be a human).
Machines are..... machines.
(The rest is just mental illness..lol)
Imagine it is 500 years ago, and we are standing in ancient Babylonia, and I say to you;
By using your logic above you would have said:
And I would answer.
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In much the same way you would have failed if I'd tried to explain cyber bullying to you in the 1960s.
Now the question makes no sense, however it won't be long before it does. Which is the point of the article, a.i. is coming whether you like it or not. At some point sentience will be reached, how we treat them at that point will shape our very future on this planet.
Or maybe I'm just raving mad. Lolz.
Cg