At 01:10 AM 10/22/2007, AL wrote:
Dear Sirs,
You can call me madam :-)
My question is: AGI, as I perceive your explanation of it, is when
a computer gains/develops an ego and begins to consciously plot its
own existence and make its own decisions.
I think the term you are looking for is "agency," rather than "ego."
Do you really believe that such a thing can happen?
Yes.
If so, is this the phenomenon you are calling "singularity"?
It is an aspect of the Singularity.
Natasha
<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha<http://www.natasha.cc/> Vita-More
PhD Candidate, CAiiA situated in the Faculty of Technology, School of
Computing, Communications and Electronics,
University of Plymouth, UK
<http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture
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If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the
circle, then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what
is inside the circle and everything outside the circle, then that is
an open system perspective. - Buckminster Fuller
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