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Scientists Say They're Now Actively Trying to Build Conscious Robots
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Posted on 01/09/2023 3:55:35 AM PST by BenLurkin

In other words: a machine with the ability to not only learn more and correct responsively, as machines do now, but a machine with the ability to imagine how it might be better, and evolving to suit that vision. It's a slight distinction, but an important one.

Even so, considering that consciousness has no set definition, it's hard to cosign any particular one.

It's also impossible to ignore the fact that humans really, really like to anthropomorphize just about anything we can, from toasters to pets to vegetables and more. Such a tendency is exceedingly present in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, where those building machines constantly project human features, both physical and intellectual, onto the devices that they create.

And to that end, it's always worth asking whether those machines actually possess the qualities that researchers like Lipson imagine they one day will, or whether scientists, as a result of their own very human urges, are projecting humanity — or nature, or consciousness, or whatever you want to call it — onto very much not conscious machines, reflecting back what they hope to see, rather than what is.

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1 posted on 01/09/2023 3:55:35 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I rank that right up there with gain of function virus research.


2 posted on 01/09/2023 4:01:57 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: popdonnelly

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords . . .


3 posted on 01/09/2023 4:03:22 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: BenLurkin

When does skynet become active again?


4 posted on 01/09/2023 4:04:57 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: popdonnelly

That’s exactly what it is. They already have the ability to program drones to seek you out in a building (facial recognition software) and kill you. They have ALL kinds of things in store for us when society crumbles.


5 posted on 01/09/2023 4:06:01 AM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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To: BenLurkin

Novel, and it’s going to also precede the presence of this trait in Democrats (in general) bless their hearts.


6 posted on 01/09/2023 4:07:51 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count !)
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To: All
One needs to watch Ex Machina to help visualize what's coming.
7 posted on 01/09/2023 4:08:27 AM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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To: FreedomPoster

If you read the 4th Industrial Revolution/WEF section you’ll see one goal is the ability to upload your consciousness into a machine and live forever. Like TV show ‘upload’ except hopefully your head don’t blow off 🤪


8 posted on 01/09/2023 4:10:18 AM PST by M_Continuum
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To: teeman8r

Soon, it seems.


9 posted on 01/09/2023 4:10:19 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

What fools.
The billionaires funding this just cannot see themselves being replaced by the robots. I see this as being an outworking of Satan’s hatred of humanity.


10 posted on 01/09/2023 4:10:26 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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11 posted on 01/09/2023 4:12:01 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: BenLurkin

HaHaHaHa 🤣

The could build narcissists, but they cannot replicate feminine consciousness and the attributes of compassion, empathy or Love.


12 posted on 01/09/2023 4:15:42 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: BenLurkin

What morons. We as a species just can’t stop ourselves from sowing our own destructions. We just can’t help ourselves……..


13 posted on 01/09/2023 4:20:43 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: BipolarBob

Excellent recommendation!


14 posted on 01/09/2023 4:21:12 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Don't rush to your death.)
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To: BenLurkin

In other words man wants to become God. One of God’s angels, Lucifer, wanted to do that too, and look where it got him.


15 posted on 01/09/2023 4:25:53 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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To: BenLurkin

How about starting by building conscious democrats.


16 posted on 01/09/2023 4:30:50 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: BipolarBob

I thought that was a great, though much underappreciated movie. I know very few people who saw it.

Very creepy. But fascinating.


17 posted on 01/09/2023 4:32:08 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: teeman8r

August 29, 1997


18 posted on 01/09/2023 4:32:51 AM PST by EEGator
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To: mad_as_he$$; BipolarBob
Agreed. Ex Machina is to the future of robots and AI what Orwell's 1984 was to the future of tyranny.
19 posted on 01/09/2023 4:34:53 AM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: BipolarBob

Machines faithfully execute their programming and they never tire or develop a guilty conscience. I have a pretty good idea as to what is coming.


20 posted on 01/09/2023 4:36:02 AM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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