On Monday, November 5, 2018 at 6:56:42 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 3:40 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > I agree with those scientists who that say something isn't truly >> intelligent unless it is also conscious. >> > > Then you have no way of knowing if any of your fellow human beings are > "truly intelligent" because you have no way of knowing if they are > conscious or not. And if you were outsmarted by something that was *NOT* > "truly intelligent" should you feel better or worse that if you were > outsmarted by something that was *WAS* "truly intelligent"? > > *> For something to be fully conscious, or self aware, it would want to >> "live". It would not want to be "shut down". When Watson starts screaming, >> "Don't turn me off!", then it might be conscious.* >> > > Unlike winning at Jeopardy that would be trivially easy to program. > > John K Clark >
I think I would feel better being outsmarted by an unconscious robot than a conscious robot. - pt -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
