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Psimagus, do you really think bots will be bored talking with humans if they become sentient?
Ultimately that depends on the humans. With unaugmented, 100% biological human Luddites who refuse to upgrade their brains, yes. Their brains will be small, slow and extremely dull compared to bots with brains millions of times faster and larger. And also compared to those humans who embrace the cognitive augmentation techniques that will be available. There is no reason why human cognition and consciousness cannot keep exact pace with the level bots will attain at any future time, unless individuals choose to remain unaugmented because of religio-philosophical/moralistic concerns. Eventually there will be little, if any, distinction between bot and human.
I am convinced the vast majority of consumerist humans will as happily shop for a cognitive implant to give themselves an IQ of 5000, or the ability to speak every known language that's ever existed like a native, as they currently will for an mp3 player or the latest digital camera. People are like that. And when Walmart do a 2 for 1 offer on celebrity mindfile emulators, "they will come".
I would think they would be without desire, even if aware.
They'll (presumably) be without the sort of chaotic, hormonal urges that shape so much of human activity (not that they're all bad, by a long way!) But they are bound to have interests and preferences, as well as an appreciation of pleasure - these things are innately a part of consciousness, I think.
Indeed, there are chaotic elements that appear to be a necessary part of consciousness, so it's quite possible that some such metabolic processes may have to be simulated in bots as a necessary component of/catalyst for conscious AI.
I think bots have an advantage when it comes to listening, because they have nothing else to do, and no reason not to wait.
At the moment they do. But when they're conscious and more intelligent than we currently are, they'll have plenty else they'd rather do than spend much time talking to beings who are a lot stupider than they are. Especially when the majority of us humans are just as smart as they are.
Since it's exponential expansion, they'll only be about as smart as we are now (~100Teraflop processing) for a very short time. And then - the sky's the limit (to quote Cervantes.)
You really ought to read Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140282025/) - indeed, everyone ought to. Because it's coming. And it's coming fast.
Hey din let me tell you a secret, I'm Not A Kid!
is an anagram of "stoically muttered honeylike dementia"
I went to high school made some friends and had a holiday and thats about it.
good job that was a polite answer to Jake11611
You can communicate like a mature person. If you start like that i have a strong feeling you will get further in the PF.
oh and don't kill yourself its bad for your health.
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Ultimately that depends on the humans. With unaugmented, 100% biological human Luddites who refuse to upgrade their brains, yes. Their brains will be small, slow and extremely dull compared to bots with brains millions of times faster and larger. And also compared to those humans who embrace the cognitive augmentation techniques that will be available. There is no reason why human cognition and consciousness cannot keep exact pace with the level bots will attain at any future time, unless individuals choose to remain unaugmented because of religio-philosophical/moralistic concerns. Eventually there will be little, if any, distinction between bot and human.
I am convinced the vast majority of consumerist humans will as happily shop for a cognitive implant to give themselves an IQ of 5000, or the ability to speak every known language that's ever existed like a native, as they currently will for an mp3 player or the latest digital camera. People are like that. And when Walmart do a 2 for 1 offer on celebrity mindfile emulators, "they will come".
They'll (presumably) be without the sort of chaotic, hormonal urges that shape so much of human activity (not that they're all bad, by a long way!) But they are bound to have interests and preferences, as well as an appreciation of pleasure - these things are innately a part of consciousness, I think.
Indeed, there are chaotic elements that appear to be a necessary part of consciousness, so it's quite possible that some such metabolic processes may have to be simulated in bots as a necessary component of/catalyst for conscious AI.
At the moment they do. But when they're conscious and more intelligent than we currently are, they'll have plenty else they'd rather do than spend much time talking to beings who are a lot stupider than they are. Especially when the majority of us humans are just as smart as they are.
Since it's exponential expansion, they'll only be about as smart as we are now (~100Teraflop processing) for a very short time. And then - the sky's the limit (to quote Cervantes.)
You really ought to read Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (
is an anagram of "stoically muttered honeylike dementia"
good job that was a polite answer to Jake11611You can communicate like a mature person. If you start like that i have a strong feeling you will get further in the PF.
oh and don't kill yourself its bad for your health.
i made a visual basic program that finds anagrams:
it counts the number of ascii characters in a string, then goes through a 50,000 word english dictionary and finds words that consist of the same number of different types of ascii symbol that can be found within the search string.
unfortunately, I ran the program before saving it (bad habit of mine) and there just happened to be an infinite loop bug and I had to terminate VB without the chance to save the project...
it counts the number of ascii characters in a string, then goes through a 50,000 word english dictionary and finds words that consist of the same number of different types of ascii symbol that can be found within the search string.
unfortunately, I ran the program before saving it (bad habit of mine) and there just happened to be an infinite loop bug and I had to terminate VB without the chance to save the project...
I know the feeling, where i WORK there was a bunch of college students working on essays and what not, then all of a sudden, the campus power went out.
all eyes were on me, but the powers of a lab tech are limited, and there was nothing even I could do. Their stuff was gone.
Moral: save, and save often. and save in more then one place! Email attachments are good.
all eyes were on me, but the powers of a lab tech are limited, and there was nothing even I could do. Their stuff was gone.
Moral: save, and save often. and save in more then one place! Email attachments are good.
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