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Story: Artificial Intelligence: Working backwards from HAL

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Posted by: GS Kern (Wednesday 29 March 2006, 12:21 AM)

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"Artificial Intelligence" will always be just that: *Artificial*. The reason is simple: As magnificent as any computer might get, including those in the future which will drive walking, talking, synthetic flesh-bound robots, they will still have as their founding principle the creative work of a Conscious Agent, namely, a Human. A Human can "set off" a highly complex algorithm that does things far beyond that human's imagination or expectations -- like a gradeschooler firing off a nuclear weapon -- but the algorithm will only be doing what was inherent to its CREATED nature... No "artificial intelligence" will ever be a Conscious Agent, capable of Creating anything...

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