On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think we need to worry about intelligent machines. A smartphone > is fairly intelligent, for example, at doing what it does. Conscious > machines, which (according to Bruno, at least) are possible, are another > matter. >
>From a practical operational standpoint it doesn't matter if a machine (or one of my fellow human beings) is conscious or not, all that matters is if it can outsmart me or not. And by the way, if you think that "smartphone" is more than just a name for a certain type of phone and is really smart then why don't you think it's conscious too? It's almost as if you believe that consciousness is harder to achieve than intelligence. > The main difference being that conscious beings have their own objectives. > But even if a intelligent being is not conscious (something I am quite sure is not possible) it would have tendencies to act in one way rather than another determined by the thoughts (call them information streams if you like euphemisms) flowing through its brain; and the more intelligent the being is the harder it would be for you to understand them. And those thoughts may very often have absolutely positively nothing to do with your best interests. John K Clark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
