Here's an interesting story about computers that can converse with
humans--actually a competition in which six computers take the "
"Turing test" of conversing with a human.
The salient part is in the fourth paragraph:
"Professor Kevin Warwick, a cyberneticist at the university, said: 'I
would say now that machines are conscious, but in a machine-like way,
just as you see a bat or a rat is conscious like a bat or rat, which
is different from a human. I think the reason Alan Turing set this
game up was that maybe to him consciousness was not that important;
it's more the appearance of it, and this test is an important aspect
of appearance.'"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/05/artificialintelligenceai
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Michael Brady
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