Re: Robot Brains and Cyborgs

[email removed] writes:
> what happens when the question of music comes up? Then of course you
> could program it to be reticent on such topics, but that's a cop out.
> It is also a tactic that could be explioted. (Blade Runner: "Tell me
> about your mother...")

> What do the software jocks say?  James?  Mark?  Richard?

Talk is cheap, here's my two cents worth.

When it comes to "true" AI, existing programming models are insufficient
to the task. The challenge to explicit programming becomes far too
great, requiring the AIT to auto-program itself a result of life
experiences. AIs are likely to have a very different set of initial
experiences than humans, and would take a large amount of interaction to
recognize and categorize human interaction and mimic it. Of course, once
such a pattern is established in one piece of hardware, the
implementation can be cloned, with fairly convincing results.

James