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From: marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will & Self-Awareness
Message-ID: <1501@houdi.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 16:11:11 GMT
References: <4134@super.upenn.edu> <3200014@uiucdcsm> <1484@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <717@taurus.BITNET>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: Artificial Learning - machine learns morals

In article <717@taurus.BITNET>, shani@TAURUS.BITNET writes:
> In article <30502@linus.UUCP>, bwk@mbunix.BITNET writes:
> >
> > I would like to learn how to imbue silicon with consciousness,
> > awareness, free will, and a value system.
> 
> .... free will and value systems - such things cannot
> be 'given', they simply exist.....
> .... You can write 'moral' programs, even in BASIC, if you want,
> because they will have YOUR value system....

It has been suggested that intelligence cannot be "given" to a machine
either.  That is, an "expert system" using only expertise "given" to it
out of the experience of human experts is not exhibiting full
"artificial intelligence."

BWK suggested "artificial awareness" as a complement to "artificial
intelligence,"  but apparently that is not enough.  You need artificial
learning.  My value system was not "given" to me, nor was my
professional expertise; both were learned.  At its ultimate, AI
research is really devoted to the invention of artificial learning.

For full artificial intelligence, the machine must derive its expertise
from its own experience.  For full artificial awareness, the machine
must derive its values from its own experience.  Not much different. 
Achieve artificial learning, and you will get both.

I hate to rehash the old "Turing test" again, but a machine cannot pass
for human longer than a few hours, or days at most, unless it has the
capacity for "agonizing reappraisal": the ability to "reevalueate its
basic assumptions."  That would be learning as humans do it.

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
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