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 <cloud...@gmail.com > <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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
