tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3334121945842432680..comments2024-03-29T11:13:02.267+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Is Artificial Intelligence alive and conscious; and, if so, how? Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-56170052229861440422019-09-16T18:45:17.680+01:002019-09-16T18:45:17.680+01:00Turing may have posed the test with a bit of profe...Turing may have posed the test with a bit of professional bravado, and perhaps with a view to tweaking the noses of his employers who had treated him shabbily.<br /><br />Maybe it should have been called the Turing Conundrum or the Turing Warning. A too-cunning imitation of humanity, repeatedly encountered and dealt with, may not only lead to an over-valuation of the artificial but to a devaluing of humanity much in the same way we grow inured to simulations of murder on television.<br /><br />Alive and conscious? No. Like many I unthinkingly enjoyed tales of robots in Asimov, <i>Star Wars</i>, Douglas Adams, etc., regarding them as characters. But seeing video of the NASA robot chilled that out of me instantly as far as reality is concerned. When one deals with a humaniform robot (android in science fiction jargon) one deals not with a person but a committee: psychologists, cyberneticists, software designers, even marketing consultants, all of them engineering the thing to engender certain responses from real people.a_probsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197411067925016452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-22999998765262375322019-09-16T13:40:41.546+01:002019-09-16T13:40:41.546+01:00William Briggs had a recent post on AI you might e...William Briggs had a recent post on AI you might enjoy.<br /><br />https://wmbriggs.com/post/27992/Brucenoreply@blogger.com