2010/1/18 silky <michaelsli...@gmail.com>: > It would be my (naive) assumption, that this is arguably trivial to > do. We can design a program that has a desire to 'live', as desire to > find mates, and otherwise entertain itself. In this way, with some > other properties, we can easily model simply pets.
Brent's reasons are valid, but I don't think making an artificial animal is as simple as you say. Henry Markham's group are presently trying to simulate a rat brain, and so far they have done 10,000 neurons which they are hopeful is behaving in a physiological way. This is at huge computational expense, and they have a long way to go before simulating a whole rat brain, and no guarantee that it will start behaving like a rat. If it does, then they are only a few years away from simulating a human, soon after that will come a superhuman AI, and soon after that it's we who will have to argue that we have feelings and are worth preserving. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
