Dave wrote:/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/."
Having a pain response, or something that avoids damage to the robot
would probably be necessary.The danger lurks that this could be carried
too far without Asimov's three laws.How might it defend itself from
being switched off?
I implied that it would have all the human senses - and then
some.Without emotions, it would indeed be very different from a human.
Such a machine would have many processors, with some dedicated to each
of the senses, all transmitting summary data to the central processor
that was the "conscious" part with the 3D image.I don't see that part as
being particularly difficult.The central processor makes up for the lack
of human parallel processing by being extremely fast.
