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IEEE Spectrum Surveys Current Games' AI Technology
orac2 writes " IEEE Spectrum has an article on the AI technologies used in the current crop of video games. State machines, learning algorithms, cheating, smart terrain, etc are discussed. Game developers interviewed include Richard Evans, of Black and White fame, who talks about Lionhead's upcoming Dmitri project and Soren Johnson who created Civ III's AI."
Namely, what happens if some researched finally stumbles across an application that passes the Turing test? One that for all intents and purposes appears to be a conscious life form?
The resulting ethical problems will be myriad
You watch too many movies. No matter how smart you can make a computer look, it is still performing the same fetch-execute cycle on primitive instructions like "add," "shift," and "branch." If that is a conscious life form, then so is a pencil and piece of paper on which you perform all these primitive instructions manually.