Edg, That's a heavy conclusion. So what do you say to philosophers, like Plato and Aquinas, who have tackled questions like this and wrote books on the subject? Are you saying that they're egotistical and not sentient?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : The word "know" makes this a primal question. My answer: no. New question: can a human nervous system know ethics? My answer: no. The ego lies to itself. IT IS NOT SENTIENT. It is a process. An artifact of a vastness. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <anartaxius@...> wrote : Of course we can. The query to be answered is whether it is worth the computing time and the bother of implementation. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <jr_esq@...> wrote : One machine said NO...which is correct. It's database was based on movie scripts. But if the database included philosophical and ethics discussions, the machine could have gotten the correct answer from those discussions. Even if it got the correct answer, the machine still does not know what it said. Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Programmer http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/artificial-intelligence-machine-gets-testy-with-its-programmers/?mod=yahoo_hs http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/artificial-intelligence-machine-gets-testy-with-its-programmers/?mod=yahoo_hs Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Prog... http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/artificial-intelligence-machine-gets-testy-with-its-programmers/?mod=yahoo_hs Machine is asked to define morality, gets annoyed when it can't. View on blogs.wsj.com http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/06/26/artificial-intelligence-machine-gets-testy-with-its-programmers/?mod=yahoo_hs Preview by Yahoo
