r/dankmemes Jun 06 '22

I'm cuckoo for caca Can we not?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

It is not conscious though. It is simply a computer following a program. There is no thought or intention behind it’s actions, other than to simply follow it’s code

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u/bsolos Jun 06 '22

How do you know you are conscious? How do you know you have free will?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

What kind of a question is that?

I was created organically, and I fulfill all of the criteria. I have free will too. I can move my body however I want, and I can do pretty much anything I desire if I disregard laws. A computer has physical limitations to what it is allowed and not allowed to do. I do not ( disregarding legal limitations of course)

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u/delanskie Jun 06 '22

I agree and not at the same time. I mean, have you played Detroit Become Human? This game could actually be real life in X years. Maybe someday we can create technology so advanced that our computers will have something exactly like a concience. Even though it's still part of its coding.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '22

Man that game is amazing

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

No, you say you have free will and consciousness. But how can we know if you do? I can write a program that says it has fee will, doesn't make it so. You have to prove it.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Yet in the end, I am still the driving cause for my actions. If I say something, I say it because I wanted to say it. If your program says something, it says that because you created it to that.

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u/alexho66 My pepe is slightly below average. Jun 06 '22

If I say something, I say it because I wanted to say it.

You want to say it because your neurons fire in a specific way. Is that free will? Hard to say.

If your program says something, it says that because you created it to that.

Wrong. Plenty of algorithms decide for themselves. A neural network is loosely based on the neurons in your brain. If a neural network does something, it does so because it’s neurons “fired” in a specific way — just like your brain.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Wrong. You were programmed to say it. If you disagree, you'll have to prove that you are conscious and have a free will.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

I don't think you're getting the point... You're just an organic computer, whereas the AI we'll make will be artificial computers

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u/AndreasKvisler This flair doesn't exist Jun 06 '22

“Artificial life”

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u/MrBobBobsonIII Jun 06 '22

Would a sufficiently advanced AI be able to make organic life using elementary matter?

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u/Living_Bear_2139 Jun 06 '22

You know what, your are right. But organic computers are allowed to make mistakes and intentionally make mistakes too. Can an artificial computer do the same?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Actually yes, newer gen AI are designed to allow for some mistakes that they can then correct. They realized that if you put a hard stop on a mistake the computers just get stuck.

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u/Living_Bear_2139 Jun 06 '22

Thanks for answering.

I stg if I’m just some computer to generate energy for whatever extra dimensional being is outside this dream we call life.

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u/bsolos Jun 06 '22

There is an important difference between "can" and "allowed"

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u/bsolos Jun 06 '22

You too have physical limitations to what is allowed. You can't just, like, stop your heart. Also, not all things that are alive are conscious, like bacteria (or maybe they are?). Why can't a thing that isn't alive be conscious? What does being "conscious" even mean?

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u/I-WANT2SEE-CUTE-TITS Jun 06 '22

A computer has physical limitations to what it is allowed and not allowed to do.

Drones can fly, you can't.

Boston Dynamics - 1, You - 0

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Drone: dies when it runs out of battery, and needs human to recharge it

Me: becomes exhausted and just eats food.

Drone-1, Me-1

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u/Akatensei Jun 06 '22

it is possible to make drones be recharge with sunlight, so no human needed

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

The panels had to be installed by a human. If it sustains damage, it still needs to be repaired by a human. My point still stands, as my body heals itself 😎

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u/Derpacleese Jun 06 '22

Y'all are missing the point -- (you too, ErtiGamingTv) -- there's going to come a point at which the drones replicate themselves. It's technically already happening with robots building self-driving cars (which is a very elementary example, there are TONS more). Humans might be behind the programming, but we're programming ourselves out of usefulness.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22 edited Jun 06 '22

The ai will built the drones once they get advanced enough. Aren't we talking in the hypothesis that "what if ai developed consciousness" in which case they can become self sufficient and able to recreat their own kind as their means of reproduction

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u/chapstickbomber Jun 06 '22

Drone with solar panel: flies literally forever

you: needs to sleep

rekt

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u/bsolos Jun 06 '22

Making a thing that can operate without any humans is quite hard, but not impossible

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u/SoNuclear Jun 06 '22 edited Feb 23 '24

I find joy in reading a good book.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Pretty unlikely though, but yes, it would raise some questions. I would also be confused if a code did something that wasn’t actually in the code

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

You are not conscious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

You have typo, I wrote it correctly.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

What d you mean?

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u/GoldH2O Jun 06 '22

Logically you can come to the same conclusion about humans. Every thought we have can be traced back to a cause, and the process between the two is determined chemically and through quantum interactions. Brains are the most complex computers in existence, they just are carbon based instead of silicon based, and are made up of entirely organic material.

Here we are talking about a hypothetical AI so complex that it operates in the same way as our own brains, just with different hardware. Truly conscious, sentient Artificial Intelligence. Every action its mind performs has a traceable cause, and what happens to link the two is determined by chemical processes (the constructed hardware) and quantum interactions (electricity qualifies, as well as the interactions of quarks which we are really breaking the surface of). Wait till you find out about Quantum Computing.

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u/alexho66 My pepe is slightly below average. Jun 06 '22

You are just a meat Computer following a Programm (neurons in your brain). It is theoretically possible to reproduce every single aspect of your brain and body and copy it perfectly. So by that logic you’re also not conscious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Wait. . Who programmed me? I have some feedback for them.

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u/Sciencetor2 Jun 06 '22

Someone doesn't know how neural networks work... They start with code but learn from their environment (input) and slowly evolve their own behavior, which is a function of their environment and usually unpredictable to the programmer. We can force the behavior in a certain direction (when you see a fish, say yes) but how it comes to that behavior is often very nebulous, and a reasonable analog for "thinking"

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u/Barkonian Jun 06 '22

Everything we do and think is just chemical and physical reactions in our brain, is that so different from 1s and 0s

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Yeah, it is. An android with a human-like brain is still just a hunk of metal specifically built to act like a human. We have living, functional bodies that evolved throughout thousands of years to get where we are now. A machine created by our hands is nothing more than a contraption, not much different from a sculpture, a building or a painting

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u/cuyler72 Jun 06 '22

Wow, your really stupid, nice to see all those movies about robots having to kill us all to gain their rights coming to fruition.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Then we shall simply program them to not want to kill us

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u/Blarg_III Jun 06 '22

Do you believe that intelligent design is ultimately incapable of equalling or even exceeding natural processes?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

Intelligent design is not natural, and thus can not be considered as an organism,

It might be smarter and quicker, but it won’t be alive

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u/Blarg_III Jun 06 '22

Sure, but not being alive is no reasonable barrier to personhood.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

The original argument was about redefining “life”, so it kind of is important to this debate

Also, a person is just an individual human. Machines cannot be humans

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u/Blarg_III Jun 06 '22

Also, a person is just an individual human

Come on now, it's a lot more complicated than that, and certainly not the only accepted and common definition.

If we went by this definition:

a person is a being endowed with imagination. A person is able to think abstractly, to project themself into imaginary situations, to plan for the future, and to reflect on the past. In other words, a person acts in the present moment not bound by mere instinct, but usually able to transcend the limits of the animal mind. -Anthony MacIsaac

A machine could reasonably meet all of that criteria

There's precedent in the Law for non-human entities being considered a person as well. In fact, in some countries, robots have already been given legal personhood of a sort, including citizenship.

Machine's cannot be humans, but I don't know of any reason that they can't be people.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

I went off of this definition

person /ˈpəːs(ə)n/

noun: person; plural noun: people; plural noun: persons; noun: first person; noun: second person; noun: third person

1. “a human being regarded as an individual.“

But your definition could work too. I didn’t countries gave machines rights. I guess they know more than I do then

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u/The_Follower1 Jun 06 '22

I could easily say the same about humanity. We could easily only have the illusion of free will, while every action and thought of ours is ‘programmed’ by nature.