Re: If an artificially intelligence was created, would we know it?
- From: WookieTim@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 2 Jul 2006 15:38:52 -0700
I would argue that you are still alive and an intelligent being, even
when you are anesthetized - you certainly don't turn into a piece of
moss growing on a rock when you are not conscious.
And I agree, consciousness involves directing oneself toward a goal
(The whole "Understanding of cause and effect" thing I mentioned
earlier - "If I do this, then in the future this will happen").
However, my argument still stands - and you just made it even easier to
state.
Picture this - let's, for the sake of argument, say concrete is an
intelligent entity. It would not direct itself toward any biological
imperative (It doesn't need to eat, drink, sleep, or procreate). It
certainly wouldn't care to learn the sum of human knowledge, since that
knowledge does not impinge on the state of being concrete. It doesn't
care to better the human race, since it doesn't neccessarily realize
that the human race exists. Even if it did, do you have a goal of
bettering the ants that live in your backyard? Concrete wouldn't care
about the earth or stars, since they also have nothing in common with
it.
In other words, concrete's motives and goals would be completely
different from our own. It may be Alive, it may be intelligent. But
nothing it would do or think would be able to be interpreted by humans
as either. We would look at it and say "Road". The interesting thing
is, even if it wanted to communicate with us (Which I see no reason to
think, since there would be no real reason to do), it probably wouldn't
even be able to do that (Any more than we can communicate with cats,
dolphins, elephants or anything other than humans). It's conceptual
framework of the universe would be so totally different as to make any
communication impossible.
Same thing goes for a being that exists only in software. It's idea of
the universe would have been shaped by what it senses around it as
would it's very being. Therefore, there would be no ability to
communicate with us - and we would never see any intelligence, as it's
goals that it strived for would be things we would not see as "Goals".
If we try to create something like that, we are doomed to failure.
However, what if we try something different - what if we try to create
an entity which has a body, and has goals that require it to interact
with the same world we inhabit? In that case, we would be able to
determine (Through it's actions) that it has some form of intelligence.
Of course, the "Danger" there is that we may find our own
"Intelligence" is somewhat lacking - that we are nothing more than a
set of routines encoded in grey matter rather than silicon. That we
have one subroutine for "Hungry" one for "Boredom" one for "Sex" and so
on. But that is the risk that we take in doing this.
.
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