There are robots which can recognize themselves in a mirror. What about digital entities?
It is an extraordinary claim, which requires extraordinary supporting evidence to be considered worthy of consideration.There are robots which can recognize themselves in a mirror. What about digital entities?
I'm not trying to sound or come across as an instigator, but do you have any sources to demonstrate or prove that robots are capable of recognizing their-selves in mirrors?There are robots which can recognize themselves in a mirror. What about digital entities?
...Video game characters don't realy exist, they 're an illusion...
I'm not trying to sound or come across as an instigator, but do you have any sources to demonstrate or prove that robots are capable of recognizing their-selves in mirrors?
I'm not trying to sound or come across as an instigator, but do you have any sources to demonstrate or prove that robots are capable of recognizing their-selves in mirrors?
That leaves the whole annoying 'consciousness' conundrum unexplored, of course. But recognition doesn't necessarily imply very much about whether consciousness (whatever that vague and ambiguous word means) is present.
I agree. A lock may be said to "recognize" a certain key. An ATM may be said to "recognize" a certain pin number. But this doesn't entail consciousness at least as we know it. Recognition, along with memory, computation, logic, language-use and probabilistic inference, is just one among several intelligent attributes that may operate independently of consciousness. We demonstrate such ourselves when we black out or sleep walk, exhibiting all sorts of functions that are normally chalked up to consciousness but really just happen as if on autopilot.
Reminds me: didn't we have a thread in which some jerk tried to maintain that viruses must have intelligence because they could discriminate between proteins on a cell surface, or something?
Deep Blue (the first program to beat a Grand Master) is not an AI program. It is a number cruncher. As briefly described in my Post #5, it uses Position Evaluation Functions & MiniMax Theory.An example of that are the chess-playing systems that Dinosaur was talking about in his post. These systems are highly intelligent indeed, perhaps more so than any human chess grand-master, but they are only intelligent when it comes to playing chess. Chess is the only thing that these systems can be aware of. The chessboard and the rules that govern it constitutes their entire universe.
Stoniphi said:So you are telling me that I am not really the Wasteland Wanderer from vault 101???? Thanks for ruining my world.
There are robots which can recognize themselves in a mirror. What about digital entities?