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[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by skinsguy

You might want to learn how to write programs first. Might I suggest starting off with Visual Basic?<tic>

Most amusing. I'll stick with C++, Perl, Python etc.

Originally Posted by skinsguy

Again, you're not understanding my simple statement that a computer follows a list of commands that a programmer gives it. If the computer decided "I'm not going to listen to that program anymore, I'm going to do my own thing" then the computer doing it's own thing is going to come from somebody, somewhere giving it a list of commands to do just that.

That has been true for most systems but now we're looking at AI becoming a reality. At what point would you declare a system sentient?

Originally Posted by skinsguy

Yeah but the judicial committee is going to be made up of humans so there goes that theory.

Checks and balances. It improves and protects the theory, it doesn't falsify it.

Originally Posted by skinsguy

Re-read what I have in bold. "Computers can be programmed". You just said it yourself. Which is what I have been trying to tell you for the past couple of hours when I should be doing my work. Computers are told what to do at all times by the programs that programmers have created. You have just now agreed with me. Thank God! Oh, sorry, I mean, thank Science!

Oooh, quoting an incomplete sentence, how clever!

Computers currently do what they are told until such time as they stop doing so.

http://singinst.org/upload/artificia...gence-risk.pdf

http://selfawaresystems.files.wordpr...ives_final.pdf

Ethical Issues In Advanced Artificial Intelligence