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**Spisivavona** · 08-27-2009, 07:22 PM

The whole point about a true AI is that it's concious and can choose it's own goals.

Bzzt. The whole point about a general-purpose AI ("true" AI has no meaning) is that it has humanlike intelligence - you can provide it with natural-language goals and it has all the tools to complete them built-in.

If the AI is strictly smarter than people, and we tell it "design a general-purpose AI smarter than yourself", it will clearly succeed (if only by epsilon).

Seriously, guys, that's all there is to it. Self-design + smarter than humans = strictly increasing intelligence.

edit: and again, seriously, consciousness doesn't enter into it. No one cares about consciousness. People care about getting **** done.

08-27-2009, 07:22 PM	#9
Spisivavona Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 552 Senior Member	The whole point about a true AI is that it's concious and can choose it's own goals. Bzzt. The whole point about a general-purpose AI ("true" AI has no meaning) is that it has humanlike intelligence - you can provide it with natural-language goals and it has all the tools to complete them built-in. If the AI is strictly smarter than people, and we tell it "design a general-purpose AI smarter than yourself", it will clearly succeed (if only by epsilon). Seriously, guys, that's all there is to it. Self-design + smarter than humans = strictly increasing intelligence. edit: and again, seriously, consciousness doesn't enter into it. No one cares about consciousness. People care about getting **** done.
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