> On Apr 28, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Peter wrote:
>
> > A sentient man-made robot/machine would be mind
> > boggling. If it was intelligent, watch out! So many
> > possibilities to consider.
>
> The disturbing thing to me is that the sceintists in AI who are
> *seriously* talking about robot species are not talking about
> initially uploading the entire consciousness of a human to the
> robot, but merely the instinctual, thinking mind. No higher
> intellect, no fine discriminating intellect (buddhi) and no
> conscience. At one of the first Mind and Life conferences the
> Dalai Lama stated that once some material matrix becomes
> available to hold consciousness, consciousness will be able
> to incarnate into this new species. And of course by the time
> we get to that stage, the ability to self-replicate, a
> relatively mechanical process, will have already been
> mastered.
>
> There are a number of yogis who have talked of future Buddhas who
> appear to be made of some silicon or crystalline material.
>
> We will already, quite soon, have computers the size of cells.
> Injectable. It's coming sooner than we think.
But true AI is never gonna happen. I work with some
of the best AI nerds in the world, and they can't even
delineate the problem, much less propose a approach
to solving it. It's a pipe dream.
What we need to be aware of and worried about is on
a *much* smaller but more dangerous scale. The single-
purpose chips that "make decisions" that affect the
health or safety of humans. More and more of them
are being developed and relied upon every day. And
more and more of them are failing and creating danger
for people every day. Some have estimated that the
machines in hospitals kill nearly as many people as
the diseases do.
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