Freddy - thanks.
I'm now working this weekend on a cool project so I haven't had time (again, sorry) but I'm watching, at least.
Real real intelligence? Real artificial intelligence? See how the english language can confuse things?
Artificial means not natural. That's strange to becuase how can ANYTHING be not natural? Anything is natural. It all exists. If it happens, it happens. Who's to say if electronic thinking beings weren't meant to become reality anyway and we are just the catalysts, just like other micro-organisms in nature end up being catalysts to the creation of other life?
I guess I don't believe there is such thing as an "artificial" anything or "unnatural" anything.
Otherwise, our computers are "unnatural" and so is technology.
Another thing I noticed is the idea that something "unnatural" is something regarded by society as "wrong" and "must be corrected or changed". So given that, we shouldn't even be using computers. See, that's why I don't believe in the idea of "unnatural". I think it's inevitable.
It's like "artificial sweeteners" is another one. Hey, it sweetens things, it exists. And if by society's standards it's wrong and should be corrected, it shouldn't be used (though some do argue that point).
If one thinks of "artificial" as man-made, then all humans are "artificial". People make people. I never saw a wolf make a people.
People also make computers. Before you say that people make people without technology, that's no longer true. People can conceive without mating due to doctor office procedures, etc. So the resulting kid, is it "artificial" and therefore exempt from rights all "natural" humans have? I would hope not!
So when an AI is born, it's then no different than a test-tube baby I would think.
Or if "artificial" means "not real" then going back to my previous point, if it exists, it's real.
If "artificial" means "not occurring in nature" then since nature has catalysts that create other things, and we could be the catalyst that creates AIs then how could AIs not be just another natural (and again, inevitable) occurance?
I think "artificial" is just a predjudiced adjective, much like a few others that are part of the English language, to label something as not "normal" or "correct" or "like everything or everyone else".
I think instead of "artificial" intelligence, meaning mostly not natural, normal, and deserving of the same rights despite if it can think or not, we should call these new life forms, should they ever occur, "electronic entities". Which is more technically correct: Electronic and an entity of some sort.
Some believe in aliens, and I bet if there ARE others on other planets, they are vastly different from us including in their own thought processes. Would they be regarded as unnatural, abnormal, or something that shouldn't have the same rights as humans? In today's climate, unfortunately it would probalby be so, unless they can kick us around and be stronger, of course. And I think that's what people are afraid of. It's an ego thing. People have to be on top, the best. Everything else under them.
Reminds me how a cheeta eats a gazelle, nobody kills the cheeta for it. A wolf eats a rabbit, nobody kills the wolf for it. A bear would eat a child, you kill the bear. An aligator eats a man, you kill the aligator. A hungry nearly-beached shark eats someone, you kill the shark. An AI does what it's programmed to but someone else disagrees...
You turn off the AI.
Who's the real enemy in the fight for survival?
