How do we know if something is self-aware, or if it is programmed to act just as human as a human?
2006-12-21 09:53:54 · 14 answers · asked by martin h 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Can't we program something to come up with ideas on it's own, without it being actually self-aware?
2006-12-21 10:03:22 · update #1
When we perceived it as an Artificial intelligence, I mean when we made a robot and said " it can think!", when we believe it, it will be created.
I believe that all the things about human perceiving and human perceiving creates everything so when we perceive it, it will be created.
In that sense, it is possible to create something like that, because; we have a great imagination skill and perceiving it can be something near.
2006-12-21 10:14:45 · answer #1 · answered by ORKAN E 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Computers are already solving problems in a short period of time that would have taken humans years. Would you care if it was self aware or only if it was self aware and smarter than you. All of the worlds living creations are self aware and mankind has paid little attention to that fact in his quest for globilization. A self aware computer would be considered a slave.
As for mimicing humans, it is difficult to tell how intelligent we really are.I have a feeling once people start teaching these nuerobots (conversational models based on nuero-nets) you won't know if you are talking to a human or a bot. You have to keep in mind our brains run on the same electrical impulses a computer does and someone will develop a practical model for how the nueron structure actually works. I know I don't have half the memory capacity as my computer (I surely couldn't memorize the dictioary or my favorite book in milliseconds).
2006-12-22 12:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Dekka 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure self-awareness is necessary to be intelligent. Remember, intelligence is just our raw ability to think--the definition of "thinking" would be helpful, but that's a long argument in itself.
Self-awareness, as the word indicates, centers upon "self," so the question of how our Selves are constructed is directly at issue. If Self is partly physiologically and socially constructed, then a computer wouldn't develop a Self much like a human's, if at all--their "lives" are nothing like ours. If by "thinking," we mean deductive reasoning, then I'm not sure self-awareness is necessary. On the other hand, if we would define "intelligence" as the ability to "meta-think" (e.i., "think about thinking"), then maybe self-awareness is necessary, because to think-about-thinking means eventually having to think about the-thing-which-thinks. Wouldn't that necessarily lead to the Self?
2006-12-21 10:23:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the definition of military intelligence has been moved to the Oxci-moron section of the dictionary
2006-12-23 09:53:35 · answer #4 · answered by JNISSI 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when we see "intelligent decisions" being made with no human or living being as a source of it
2006-12-21 10:02:10 · answer #5 · answered by I and A 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when it comes with an original idea that has never been programmed into it
2006-12-21 10:01:32 · answer #6 · answered by DB Cash 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
^^ Someone is watching too much sci-fi.
Is self awareness a prerequisite of AI?
2006-12-21 10:09:44 · answer #7 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
anything could happen,the simple fact that you have tough of it,can make it a tangible possibility
2006-12-21 19:18:24 · answer #8 · answered by Byzantino 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We,ve already done that. We elect them every four years.
2006-12-21 11:19:52 · answer #9 · answered by mr.bond 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, you'll know if you've created female A.I. if it starts nagging at you, I know that much.
2006-12-21 10:02:54 · answer #10 · answered by ▒♥▒♥▒♥▒♥▒™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋