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From: gilbert@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Gilbert Cockton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will & Self Awareness
Message-ID: <1187@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 18 May 88 15:52:25 GMT
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In article <1176@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>Punishment can serve to "redesign" the human machine.  If you have children, 
>you will probably know this.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work with everyone.
How can an artificial intelligence ever rise above recidivism?  Are
there any serious examples of re-programming systems, i.e. a system
that redesigns itself in response to punishment. Don't generalise
from crude 'learning' systems either, I don't think these would scale up.
That reminds me, what was it the behaviourists said about punishment?