A design of this nature might be interesting to follow. Why not add the
ability to detect when it is injured by some form of pain response? Then add
the other senses to allow the machine to experience things that a new child
would encounter.
Even with these additions, I would not expect a present day design to behave in
a manner that remotely resembles a human. Our brain appears to be a massively
parallel data processing environment while most computers process one
instruction at a time. We need to understand parallel systems far better
before tackling the sentient robot challenge.
Dave
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From: a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net>
To: vortex-L <vortex-L@eskimo.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 2:28 pm
Subject: [Vo]:A Halloween scare for real
Budgerigars have tetrachromatic color vision and one named Puck had a
vocabulary of 1728 words. They obviously don’t have the brain power or
incentive to develop science or “civilization” but they are sentient.
The difference between sentience and intelligence seems blurred. I
have long advocated that a good route to AI would be to construct a
simple conscious robot. That is to say, one that contained a 3D image
of itself and its immediate environment, with all the usual sensors, and
that was programmed to explore and learn. I think this is the
essence of consciousness.
Then it could set about learning in much the same way as a child.
This could be speeded up by preloading data such as a dictionary,
rules of grammar and the ability to talk, together with basic
engineering and science. Access to the internet would be a mixed
blessing until judgment was developed.
Taking a more evolutionary route than top down programming. The key
being the internal image of itself and whatever “desires” were programmed
in. I visualize a secondary image under the control of the robot in
which the computer could make and move its own 3D images of objects.
This would be a decided advantage over human intelligence. Much
easier to write this than the program of course.
