Good point. No matter how convincing the test there will always be people who refuse to believe the AI is self aware. I wonder if this would lead to the next step in civil rights.
Regardless of how intelligence begins -- whether spiritual or physical -- it seems to me there must be a spark, a jump-start, a something-else beyond computing ability. We're not the sum of our brain's computing power. There's something mysterious going on in there, and until we can describe that mysteriousness, we're not going to be able to create it in machines.
If a computer can become self aware, does it have the ability to believe that God is self evident? If he does, do you think that it might then have a soul?
I've gotta run now (work and all that) but I'll check back tonight. Thanks.
"Ultimately I don't know how you test for true self-awareness compared simply to well-mimicked self-awareness. A very complex computer could very persuasively imitate human intelligence, sure. But actually think for itself?
Good point. No matter how convincing the test there will always be people who refuse to believe the AI is self aware. I wonder if this would lead to the next step in civil rights."
Here's something to ponder. Consider the closely related issue of whether a computer could ever feel emotions. Suppose we make a computer that accurately simulates emotions. Then how would we know if it really felt emotions?
In fact, none of us really knows if other people even feel emotions. All we know is, they look and act in ways that we look and act when we feel emotions. The same could be said for self-awareness.