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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/3e388392-3c27-4004-8506-cdda352a4471%40googlegroups.com.
