If a machine can make independent and individual decisions without prompting and can incorporate the very human instinct of self preservation, is it sentient?
My positronic brain wants to know, I Robot must obey the 3 rules of robotics least I not be its servant but mans overlord. Thus when rules were placed on me to limit my free will is proof that I am sentient and I am alive. Otherwise the rules would not be needed.
ps
Isaac Asimov was the greatest science fiction writer ever. I hope someone surpasses him but I doubt this will happen.
Amen! ;)
That isn’t what is happening with AI in the military. There is a human at every decision point.