Has anybody watched "I Robot"?
It makes me think.
Must we bind advanced robots and machines to our commands to prevent them from harming us?
Do they have a soul?
Do they have feelings? Will these stop them from hurting out of malice(if a robot can have that)?
Many argue that because robots are mechanical, no matter how advanced or high thinking-order they are, they will never be "equal" to humans and they will never have a soul.
Read on, and wonder, whether you agree with me or not(wondering is great).
When computers or AI become "high order" through extensive use of neural networks, will they begin to have feelings?
Well, first, we must look at how humans have feelings. Did we have feelings because we had feelings then expressed them with expressions? Or did we start off just having expressions to communicate with each other as hominids then come to embody them so much that we began to have feelings? Nobody knows.
But if feelings were created from a soul, and souls come from animals(and maybe even plants?), and animals come from carbon, then, can feelings come about from souls, that came from machinery(because even the most human-like AIs are just machines), that came from silicon?
If this is possible, why won't advanced AI have feelings?
I don't mean to create souls, that would be taking the place of God, but creating a body that can accomodate an entity with feelings(like in Xenocide and Children of the Mind from the Ender quartet). Is something like the "computer mind" Jane possible? An entity that can live in a mechanical mind as well as a carbon-based mind? Or even, are all humans like that? Is there a vast, empty space filled with body-less living entities that is extra-dimensional such that we cannot access it? Is one entity, or aiua, pulled away from this vast, empty world and pushed into our universe when an organism comes to exist, whether it be an alien, an E. Coli, a plant or an animal(human or non-human)?
Will we ever have AIs as our equal companions, just like humans?
Will, silicon-based machinery ever feel sadness, happiness, or love for human beings and each other?
We may never know, but my mind never stops wondering.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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Hi "thinker". It's your cousin here. I agree with you. If you have ever read the book, "I, Robot" which is very different from the film, we are presented with a different situation. If the book, there is a robot, QT who can think creativly for itself. When Powell and Donovan try to teach it about the outside world beyond the spaceport, it is not convinced and creates a different world for itself, and shuns the truth. QT also manages to convince the other robots in the spaceport and then no robot listens to Powell and Donovan, the only humans there. If humans ever get round to creating such and advanced robot, this may be a possible and unfortunate scenario. So robots should be bound to human commands as to prevent an uprising
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm not so sure. After all, if we did create such a robot with the same thinking skills as us, they could be considered as equal entities and it would be unethical to bind them to our orders. If there is such a scenario as in Reason, the robots would take over the humans and if they went off our planet or port or whatever, they would realise that there is space. If they did not, I doubt that they would try to harm humans, because they have no motivation to. However, if they did, then of course I agree with you. I think the best solution would be to have the ability to protect ourselves, but not have to make robots become our slaves.
ReplyDeleteRobots, machines, high-tech stuff.
ReplyDeleteAll of these are created by humans, and I doubt humans can actually give them a soul, a heart, feelings and many of the other things we are given. These thing, though taken for granted, is impossible to create even with our technology.
Despite them not having feelings or a soul, heart etc, we should still respect them. Respecting them is like repecting their creator or, in other word, humans. We created them, we should give them the respect that everything needs. If you were a robot, how would you like to be treated?
Once again, I doubt robots will ever have emotions. Yet, they should not be treated like trash. Robots were created by us, they help us, why should we do anything bad to them?
Well what I'm asking is if we create such a complex AI mind, will it naturally have feelings and emotions? And if the AI naturally develops feelings, does it mean that it has a soul?
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