On Friday, May 17, 2019 at 5:06:29 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > > > On 5/17/2019 4:56 AM, John Clark wrote: > > If you somehow knew for a fact a brilliant being was a zombie then you > could immediately make one conclusion about it, the being could NOT be the > product of Darwinian Evolution because Natural Selection can see > intelligence but it can't see consciousness in others any better than we > can, and it can't select for something it can't see. > > > I don't see how that follows. If zombies are possible then evolution > could have produced brilliant zombies. It might just be an accident that > evolution took the "consciousness" path at some point. It might even vary > from species to species...as it might in the future when we develop > human-level in AI-robots. I can't imagine how an AI could have human > level intelligence without the ability to reflect on itself, but I can > imagine this reflection being realized in very different ways. For > example, for high reliability in some space vehicles, we have provided > three separate computers programmed by different teams to check decisions > by majority voting. > > Brent >
Certainly we (AI engineers) can continue to hack together increasingly "intelligent" robots out of conventional processing technology. They are all zombies (in the sense they are not conscious). A "creative" robot may be a challenge. @philipthrift @philipthrift -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/3e388392-3c27-4004-8506-cdda352a4471%40googlegroups.com.
