Russell Wallace wrote:
> ...
>
> Mind you, I don't believe it will be feasible to create conscious or
> self-willed (e.g. RPOP) AI in the foreseeable future. But that's
> another matter.
That depends entirely on how you define "conscious" and "self-willed".
For many definitions the robots that sense their electric charge, and
plug themselves in to recharge are both conscious and self-willed,
albeit on an elementary level.
Okay, suffice it to say those aren't the definitions I'm using.
If the robots went "hey, bloody hell we shouldn't have to rely on these stupid little batteries" and swiped their owner's credit card and used it to phone an electrician to rig up a cable they could drag around with them, that's what I'd call self-willed.
If they came up with an original theory of the meaning of life that meant it was important for them to do this, then I wouldn't have any great difficulty believing they were conscious :)
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