So self awareness - if you program a robot to recognize itself, then why isn't it self aware? Self awareness is on a spectrum isn't it?
Emotion is interesting. You could program a robot to feel emotion. If you want a robot to "feel" emotion all you need to do is program the emotional state into a place holder as an abstraction. Infinity =good -infinity =bad or 1 = good 2 = bad - then have all sorts of behaviors, motivations, and memory banks surrounding these emotions interacting dynamically and affecting them (I'm not a programmer). The memories, motivations, and behaviors then give rise to more complicated emotions like jealousy, pride, integrity, or envy. Of course, who wants a robot to feel these things??? WHy would you want a computer to give rise to these perceptions. It's unneeded.
As an aside - all you need a robot to "feel" is good - when it helps human and obeys humans - and nothing - when it is not helping humans - that would give it motivation to help humans because it would have the "good" memories. You don't need robots to be self aware either - you just need it to be able to identify itself so it does not try to plug a socket into a human or a different robot so that it can recharge itself. The robot could confuse itself with another entity and do something dangerous.
Ideally don't we want robots to not have to feel so they can replace humans who do feel and are unhappy doing jobs that can be more easily be viewed as meaningless (at least on a deeper level) - like garbage men and computer programmers (hahahah)?
This really has taught me how fair and balanced slashdot is...
I read that and it is preaching to the choir but I'm curious what you intelligent historians think.
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson091005. html
Ooh, I have a degree in history, whatever I say must hold some merit. My opinions are valid, I have worth and you should listen to me.
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And why couldn't a platform be made that is distributed/licensed freely or cheaply - thereby killing Trolltechs profits?
Do they monopolize patents on a cellphone gui or something?
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They're tiny...
A few hundred kilobytes of code?
A couple of flashy cartoonish graphics?
I'm amazed a company can base its entire self on this concept.
Both economically and culturally...
Economically - many houses having an extra 10-80 dollar lying around every month.. -
That's a lot of money to be spent on products and services from other sectors.
Talk about a tipping point.
Then if *everyone* was connected -
Look how much society has changed in 10 years with the interenet or even the last 5 years - and thats like with only 40-80% of the population connected.
I'm sure it's been asked, but how would google benefit from this besides building it's brand identity?
http://www.firstgov.gov/http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/
How about we create a government project -
And hook up everyone securely to it.
That way - we can eliminate layers of administration and save money and time.
Save time; save money.
What all you skeptics are afraid of is like turning from the gold system to the credit system.
Relax.
That it is France who chooses to spend 12 billion, taking a risk, to make the world better. A little hypocritical? Or perhaps there will be an international backlash where America and France II constantly bitches and wines about their moral superiority and France I's inevitable failure.
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Addiction is defined by use despite consequences. So are there consequences for our behavior? I suppose different opinions could exist.
So self awareness - if you program a robot to recognize itself, then why isn't it self aware? Self awareness is on a spectrum isn't it? Emotion is interesting. You could program a robot to feel emotion. If you want a robot to "feel" emotion all you need to do is program the emotional state into a place holder as an abstraction. Infinity =good -infinity =bad or 1 = good 2 = bad - then have all sorts of behaviors, motivations, and memory banks surrounding these emotions interacting dynamically and affecting them (I'm not a programmer). The memories, motivations, and behaviors then give rise to more complicated emotions like jealousy, pride, integrity, or envy. Of course, who wants a robot to feel these things??? WHy would you want a computer to give rise to these perceptions. It's unneeded. As an aside - all you need a robot to "feel" is good - when it helps human and obeys humans - and nothing - when it is not helping humans - that would give it motivation to help humans because it would have the "good" memories. You don't need robots to be self aware either - you just need it to be able to identify itself so it does not try to plug a socket into a human or a different robot so that it can recharge itself. The robot could confuse itself with another entity and do something dangerous. Ideally don't we want robots to not have to feel so they can replace humans who do feel and are unhappy doing jobs that can be more easily be viewed as meaningless (at least on a deeper level) - like garbage men and computer programmers (hahahah)?
I have not read the details of the study, but perhaps we are culturally conditioned to do as we are instructed and chimps aren't. See: Milgram
The name is way cooler.
Windows Vista: Ajax
This really has taught me how fair and balanced slashdot is... I read that and it is preaching to the choir but I'm curious what you intelligent historians think. http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson091005. html
Ooh, I have a degree in history, whatever I say must hold some merit. My opinions are valid, I have worth and you should listen to me.
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And why couldn't a platform be made that is distributed/licensed freely or cheaply - thereby killing Trolltechs profits? Do they monopolize patents on a cellphone gui or something?
They're tiny... A few hundred kilobytes of code? A couple of flashy cartoonish graphics? I'm amazed a company can base its entire self on this concept.
Maybe they should make a fallout three... Because it wasn't broken, so don't fix it. *a hem: Tactics*
And it will turn out this is all part of The Brain's grand skeem to take over the world. Narf, -Pinky
Like I didn't see this coming. What great news....
Both economically and culturally... Economically - many houses having an extra 10-80 dollar lying around every month.. - That's a lot of money to be spent on products and services from other sectors. Talk about a tipping point. Then if *everyone* was connected - Look how much society has changed in 10 years with the interenet or even the last 5 years - and thats like with only 40-80% of the population connected. I'm sure it's been asked, but how would google benefit from this besides building it's brand identity?
It's infected slashdot.
Thanks.
The Drudge or the Slashdot.....
What will they do with quake 3 and a beowulf cluster? I'm genuinely curious.
Is that a rhetorical question? Is this?
What law makes reverse engineering illegal? Does it break a patent? Or violate DMCA? ? Thanks.
How will you use that much space? Oh, oh , I know...
Why not 100?
http://www.firstgov.gov/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/ How about we create a government project - And hook up everyone securely to it. That way - we can eliminate layers of administration and save money and time. Save time; save money. What all you skeptics are afraid of is like turning from the gold system to the credit system. Relax.
now we can finally fix Genine Garofalo, Hilary Clinton and Rosie Odonnell.. Yeah?
damnit
phones to make them vibrate with the code... non verbal/text communication. Its' practically telepathy... ^^
That it is France who chooses to spend 12 billion, taking a risk, to make the world better. A little hypocritical? Or perhaps there will be an international backlash where America and France II constantly bitches and wines about their moral superiority and France I's inevitable failure.