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My Thought Experiment on Artificial Intelligence. Long, so if you don't like philosophy, you wont read this.
27 Jun 2022 6:10 pm
1) humans have a different survival strategy than insects and horses. Technology is a critical aspect of our reproductive fitness...while other species have no use for it. That is unique to us.Vegas » 27 Jun 2022, 6:08 pm » wrote: ↑ 1. That is where the philosophy comes in. Why can we think at such a higher level of reason than an insect or a horse, unless we had some purpose other than reproduction. Reproduction doesn't require reason and logic. Insects/animals have been doing it, without thinking, for millions of years. So why do we have the capability of thinking at this level if it isn't required to reproduce?
2. But that is exactly why we design the AI bots. Otherwise, we just call them computers that can compute mundane things. It's reason to think isn't its own. Its ours. We design it to think because we said so.
2) but what reason do we give to the machine?