No, and it's a damn good thing it isn't. If it was we would be sentencing it to a mindless job with no time off, only to be disposed of when a better model comes out. We only want our AI's to be a smart as necessary to accomplish their jobs just as our cells and organs are. Limited conciousness or self-reflectivity may only be necessary in highly complex systems like computers where we may want them to recognize that they have a virus and take steps like searching for a digital vaccine to eliminate it without the owner even knowing it was there. Even in these cases we are only giving the system conciousness over one specific aspect of it's being. I would say that until we have software that can learn new free format information as we do and modify it's goal stack based upon that new information then we do not have a truly concious computer.
_____ From: Bob Mottram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [agi] SOTA Ah, but is a thermostat conscious ? :-) On 12/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: http://www.thermostatshop.com/ Not sure what you've been Googling on but here they are. There's even one you can call on the telephone > If there's a market for this, then why can't I even buy a thermostat > with a timer on it to turn the temperature down at night and up in the > morning? The most basic home automation, which could have been built > cheaply 30 years ago, is still, if available at all, so rare that I've > never seen it. > _____ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303 _____ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
