Re: Robot Brains and Cyborgs

<Scott Kellogg says>
: 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?

ME!?  A software jock!?  Scott you've been sampling the biochem'
department's throwaways!  . . . but as James says...
:Talk is cheap, here's my two cents worth.
I'll be happy to philosophise for you.

I'll only mildly disagree with James.  I suspect that it is _almost_
within the skill of TL8 programming to create an AI that is concerto
qualified.  Of course it would do nothing else.  I assert it's more a
matter of hardware than software at this point.  We can do anything,
given enough code.  :=)

Actually, my view of machine intelligence is that when it arrives,
it will in no way mimic human intelligence.  Well, maybe superficially.
After all, the robot - Si creature that it is, rugged, semi-immortal,
with different sensor apparatus, has about as much in common with us
as does the fruit fly.

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Richard Johnson      [email removed]
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