> From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- On Sat, 5/31/08, John G. Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I don't believe you are conscious. I believe you > > > are a zombie. Prove me wrong. > > > > I am a zombie. Prove to me that I am not. Otherwise I will > > accuse you of being conscious. > > Exactly my point. >
Just because you communicate through the limited bandwidth medium of text doesn't prove anything. You could make a smart zombie chatterbot and make it irritating enough where it is very terse and just fleeting enough where you never figure it out. So what? A problem though is eventually even a CAPTCHA won't work to filter these things. CAPTCHA's will evolve past character recognition to image recognition, it'll be interesting. What do you see in this image, a pony or a donkey. The bots will get smarter. And CAPTCHA's will ask even more humanlike questions. Does that have anything to do with consciousness? What's the test for consciousness? John ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
