Christians: If we created a robot with genuine artificial intelligence, would it have free will?

Question

Poseidon: How do you program a robot to have free will?

Stamos: Why not?

What does being a machine have to do with free will?

...I'll tell you. It means you don't have it. And we are machines too, so neither do we.

Freaky Looking Pope: Correct.

Watergoat: Religion is intricately tied to the notion that you were given free will. Christianity would fall apart if you didn't. I am saying you don't by illustrating concepts with robotics. You are a robot made of meat. Free will is an illusion.

Answer 1

Only if it was programmed that way. It would probably be incredibly depressed as we'd give it tasks like cleaning our kitchens or seating guests.

Edit: If we were capable of programming consciousness, then we would be capable of letting that consciousness choose its own course. If we trained it(not programmed it) to like us while telling it that it can do whatever it likes, but we treat it better when it does what we say, then it could either do what we say or reject it. It would be absurd of us however, to create such a thing, since any true intelligence would see how petty we are and would reject us as masters.
It would be unethical and evil of us to create such a thing, promise it wonderful things if it followed us and great pain and suffering if it disagreed with us.

Answer 2

You mean creator will create to serve him ?And if he will not serve him then he would be in the hell fire or some other torment station ? I thought you follow Hinduism , and Hinduism does not force anyone to believe in God and worship him .Atheism is an integral part of Hinduism. “ In some ways people had got used to the idea that India was spiritual and religion-oriented. That gave a leg up to the religious interpretation of India, despite the fact that Sanskrit had a larger atheistic literature than what exists in any other classical language. Madhava Acharya, the remarkable 14th century philosopher, wrote this rather great book called Sarvadarshansamgraha, which discussed all the religious schools of thought within the Hindu structure. The first chapter is "Atheism" – a very strong presentation of the argument in favor of atheism and materialism. Amratya Sen According to Markandey Katju, Chairman of the Press Council of India and former judge of the Supreme Court of India, eight out of the nine systems of Hindu Philosophy are atheistic, as they do not have a place for God in them. Only one of the nine systems, Uttar Mimansa, which is also called Vedanta, has a place for God in it. Mimamsas argued that there was no need to postulate a maker for the world, just as there was no need for an author to compose the Vedas or a God to validate the rituals. he Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedas, deals with a lot of skepticism when dealing with the fundamental question of a creator God and the creation of the universe. It does not, at many instances, categorically accept the existence of a creator God. Nasadiya Sukta (Creation Hymn) in the tenth chapter of the Rig Veda states Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Samkhya is an atheistic and strongly dualisticorthodox (Astika) school of Vedas philosophy. The earliest surviving authoritative text on classical Samkhya philosophy is the Samkhyakarika (c. 350–450 CE) of Iśvarakṛṣṇa.The Samkhyakarika accepts the notion of higher selves or perfected beings but rejects the notion of God.[20]

Answer 3

Do you know a robot can only do what man program it to do, & I have work around many robots in the factory before I retired, 18 months ago, & I saw many robot go haywired,

Answer 4

First, define boredom. Intelligence starts with boredom. Necessity may be the mother of invention, but boredom was the father.

Machines need to recognize logical loops, like people do. This is an example;

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsBrrARpZchqzOutIo51yU7d7BR.?qid=20070801081104AA4IRn1

Do you see a pattern?

Answer 5

Well, first of all, 'genuine artificial' is a contradiction. i think you mean 'actual' intelligence, as opposed to being merely apparently intelligent.
And no Christian will allow that to be considered true. We (the lowly created) cant create more life synthetically and assign it free will or a soul.
Nice question.

Answer 6

volks wagon robot free test drive drive by it self but still needs lots of human with free will to program it luv dad no holy spirit in it a plane with free will will end up in Hawaii instead of n.y. or n.j. so no.

Answer 7

if christians have anything to do with it it will think it has free will but that will be defined by its masters or creater who im sure will want it to serve him only without question. a god complex almost. ( its free will will purposely have limits and mechanisms to reverse or diagnostically test wether its free will is rigth or wrong and then internally burn out all circuits rendering it useless).

Answer 8

It would need a small brain from an animal,and stem cells from a human.

Answer 9

No, because free will is a property of the soul, not of the intellect.

Answer 10

What does religious belief --ANY religious belief-- have to do with robotics? Answer: nothing at all. Dude, what a nonsensical question.