"The Invincible" by Stanislaw Lem directly addresses this topic. Astronauts land on a planet inhabited by evolved robot species. The dominant species manifests itself as a swarm of robotic flies. The astronauts cannot communicate with the flies, because although they are robotic and successful, they are still basically flies. I don't think this Barbalet character has really thought his ideas out properly; it seems absurd to define intelligence as "that trait that allows a system to survive a long time." The Turing test's definition is along the lines of "The characteristic of communicating like a human", which, although imperfect, is far more sensible.
There are already Star Wars slot machines. I was a little surprised when I first saw them in Vegas, but with Star Wars being the brand whore that it is, this story, sadly enough, really is a little bit plausible.
I still use capslock when I play video games. I know a lot of newer 3dfps just default to run always being on, but a lot of times I find I need to be able to map a command to a key that can be toggled, and capslock is really the only key set up to toggle in hardware.
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"The Invincible" by Stanislaw Lem directly addresses this topic. Astronauts land on a planet inhabited by evolved robot species. The dominant species manifests itself as a swarm of robotic flies. The astronauts cannot communicate with the flies, because although they are robotic and successful, they are still basically flies. I don't think this Barbalet character has really thought his ideas out properly; it seems absurd to define intelligence as "that trait that allows a system to survive a long time." The Turing test's definition is along the lines of "The characteristic of communicating like a human", which, although imperfect, is far more sensible.
Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
There are already Star Wars slot machines. I was a little surprised when I first saw them in Vegas, but with Star Wars being the brand whore that it is, this story, sadly enough, really is a little bit plausible.
I still use capslock when I play video games. I know a lot of newer 3dfps just default to run always being on, but a lot of times I find I need to be able to map a command to a key that can be toggled, and capslock is really the only key set up to toggle in hardware.