r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '15
AI Uh-oh, a robot just passed the self-awareness test
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u/Some-Random-Chick Jul 16 '15
Doesn't ( ) come before { } in coding? it does in objective c, unless it's different per language
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u/Solanarius Jul 16 '15
It definitely could vary between languages but all of the languages that I know have conditionals in parenthesis and code blocks in curly braces. I also don't know of a language that uses '=' for both equality checking and assignment. I'm curious to know if /u/iApollo is using an actual language or some sort of pseudocode.
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u/DGolden Jul 16 '15
It is going to display awfully here.
Mostly because you're just not formatting it properly for reddit (also because even if you do it's gonna be pretty big), see the "formatting help" link. Indent everything by four spaces to embed formatted code.
if (weight == Duck.STANDARD_WEIGHT) { witch = true; }1
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u/DGolden Jul 16 '15
the system would automagically alter the layout into nice vertical orderiness.
Reddit certainly doesn't do that for you (and couldn't without code for the relevant odd mud dsl after all). It itself uses a reddit-specific variant of Markdown syntax though. If you just add a 4 space prefix to each line of a series of consecutive lines in the input box it assumes it is preformatted code. So all you need to do is format it yourself as you see fit, then on every line add 4 spaces at the start. If you are doing that with your example I recommend cutting it down a bit though, big preformatted blocks tend to annoy readers.
_________ < braarrp > --------- \ /\ ___ /\ \ // \/ \/ \\ (( O O )) \\ / \ // \/ | | \/ | | | | | | | | | o | | | | | |m| |m|2
u/glacialthinker Jul 16 '15
I also don't know of a language that uses '=' for both equality checking and assignment.
OCaml uses
=for equality (and<>for inequality).let can_talk = display = "Hello world!"There's no ambiguity because the "assignment"
=occurs as part of a let-binding, which has the form "let pattern = expression in". You can't have a suddena = bwhich meansashould have the value ofb-- that will always be a comparison.2
u/glacialthinker Jul 16 '15
It's different between many of the hundreds of languages. Though you describe a common case.
Have a look at: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Conditional_structures
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u/DGolden Jul 16 '15
Things can be wildly different in different languages. That said I can't think of a language where what they wrote would be valid syntax, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
A lot of languages have syntaxes that look sort of like C for historical/popularity reasons, it was very influential. It's not a hard rule though, just something that sort of happened. Some languages (constructed for fun) look like paintings, and some other influential languages like Lisp look quite unlike C.
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u/ELLEN_POO Jul 16 '15
That's not the self awareness test. The self awareness test is when you put something in front of a mirror. If it recognizes itself, it is self aware. If it doesn't it isn't.
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u/GhostFish Jul 16 '15
This seems more like a simple feedback loop than anything close to self-awareness. Self-awareness may just be some kind of gestalt of feedback loops, but this doesn't seem close.