Clicking for consciousness
September 1, 2000 6:41 AM Subscribe
Clicking for consciousness Depressingly reductionist. It is wrong to think that if we can't tell the difference between a binary machine in a box and a person in a box we should behave as if there were no difference.
Although admittedly the whole AI thing, even if across-the-board successful in their goals, would not be creating another human but merely another being, I didn't know we had arrived at a consensus about what constitutes human consciousness in the first place.
So computers will never think like humans. Neither will humans.
This project sounds hubristic, but so did the Human Genome Project, and they're pretty much done their task. Maybe something useful and meaningful will come out of this. Odd as it looks right now.
posted by chicobangs at 8:26 AM on September 1, 2000
So computers will never think like humans. Neither will humans.
This project sounds hubristic, but so did the Human Genome Project, and they're pretty much done their task. Maybe something useful and meaningful will come out of this. Odd as it looks right now.
posted by chicobangs at 8:26 AM on September 1, 2000
Heh heh. I read the headline of this post and thought it was another article about Kenny Baker returning as R2-D2 in the next Star Wars movie.
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