2008/9/17 JDLaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > IMHO to all, > There is an important morality discussion about how sentient life will > be treated that has not received its proper treatment in your > discussion groups. I have seen glimpses of this topic, but no real > action proposals. How would you feel if you created this wonderful > child (computer intelligence) in this standard GNU model and then > people began to exploit and torture your own child?
You can do this now if you wish. I wrote a program called autobliss (see http://www.mattmahoney.net/autobliss.txt ), a 2-input logic gate that is trained by reinforcement learning. A teacher selects random 2-bit inputs, then rewards the student if it gives the correct output or punishes it if the output is incorrect. You can choose the level of simulated pleasure or pain given during each training session. The program protects against excessive simulated torture by killing the student first, but you can easily modify the software to remove this protection and then choose punishment regardless of which output the student gives. The program is released under GPL so you can legally do this and then distribute it in an @home type screensaver so that millions of PC's use all their spare CPU cycles to inflict excruciating simulated pain on millions of copies. Or maybe you can precisely define what makes a program "sentient" as opposed to just property. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=114414975-3c8e69 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
