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From: dml@puka.Philips.Com (Damian M. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: intelligence definition, reasons for
Keywords: intelligence, awareness, implications
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Date: 7 Dec 90 18:25:07 GMT
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In article <14759@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jude@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Jude Poole) writes:
>I've been watching the definition of intelligence debate and its 
>associated chinese room arguments and I have an observation.
>
> .. [ two interesting reasons for defining intelligence ] ..
>
>
>We would certainly want to know if some purportedly self aware computer
>performing a critical task 'asked' to be relieved of the task because it
>didn't want to do it was doing so because it was really sentient or
>merely had been programmed by some malcontent to do so.  I personnally
>don't believe you can create awareness in a computer at all.  My reasons
>are largely philosophical and the 'Turing test' does nothing at all to
>address them.  To me a machine that passes the 'Turing test' is a
>tremendous accomplishment and a vindication of the pie-in-the-sky AI
>types, but ultimately in ethical terms I'll consider such a thing to be
>merely an interesting machine.

Interesting breakdown. (Sound of can of worms opening.) 
Perhaps you would share your `ethical
equivalence' test criteria with us. I assume they are better than

ethical-equivalent(entity,likeus) iff
I.  *entity* is known to be *likeus*, or
II. *entity* is not known to be *likeus*, 
    but can pass moral-correctness-test-of-my-choice.

where we are interested in 
   ethical-equivalent(turing-test-passing-machine,human)

Personally, if a turing-test passing machine asked me to releave it of
its function, I would be as likely to comply as I would comply with my
friend Fifi's request that we not see each other again, even should I
suspect that Fifi was bribed (in a Wodehouse-like fashion) by my rich
aunt who thought the family honour was at stake.

Damian.

PS. II is also known as the principle of spanish inquisition :-)

>
>Jude Poole
>jpoole@ucsd.edu

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