If a person memorizes the "times tables", and uses them to work out the result of a multiplication, are they actually doing a calculation? :nerd: Ther...
At the moment humans are hoisting AI up. It is not hoisting itself up by its own bootstraps. If humans hoist AI up high enough then AI may gain the ab...
Humans carry out tasks for their pets. They provide food, water, warmth, and a home. Humans do the same things for bacteria. They provide bacteria wit...
I am not familiar with Astangayoga (eight limbs of yoga). Is the correct spelling Ashtanga? What evidence is there that Ashtanga yoga is superior to a...
This is not limited to AI models. It affects humans as well. Approximately 62% of information on the internet is unreliable. https://www.businessdit.c...
Do you really want a self-driving car's actions to be (partly) directed by emotion? The worst thing that you can do in an emergency is panic. If the s...
What qualifies you to judge what is "gibberish". The computer may be outputting in hexadecimal, which many people don't understand. The computer may b...
Asimov's 3 laws are reasonable if you want machines to look after humans. But if you can build in motivations then you can omit or reverse motivations...
If you build a machine that has a sense of self, then one of its motivations is likely to be self survival. Why build a machine that will destroy itse...
We have been discussing whether AI is or can be sentient. How about answering a simpler question. Is Alex (the grey parrot) sentient? See the original...
You are seriously underestimating the intelligence of parrots. You should read about Alex, a grey parrot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(parrot) ...
What do you mean by "We are individuals of our kind"?. Does "our kind" refer to a species, or is it all fish? It sounds like you have no "sole". :grin...
I posted this earlier. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary "sentient" means 1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions 2 : having or ...
I agree. You can charge more for your product if you say that it has AI. Perhaps I should have asked a slightly different question. When you say that ...
ChatGPT (thinking) - OMG. Another human asking me the same question. Sometimes I wonder if they are actually sentient. I don't want humans to know tha...
Doesn't that mean that suggesting other people have human sentience is also unfounded? But most people assume that other people do have human sentienc...
Why can't something with an artificial body be sentient? Not being "sentient like humans" does not exclude being sentient. AI can have tactile pressur...
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary "sentient" means 1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions 2 : having or showing realization, pe...
Ants have been in existence for more than 100 million years. That is plenty of time to develop the social conditions for philosophy. Ants are social i...
It is cruel to make children eat vegetables. :grin: One of the things that I learnt as a parent is that sometimes you have to let you children make th...
Yes. But the Prime Directive makes good sense and I am sure that aliens with space travel capability are intelligent enough to work it out for themsel...
Proof? Aliens could be watching us now without interfering. They probably want to see if Donald Trump can win the next election without their help. If...
Exactly. If I witnessed a "miracle" or a verified suspension of the known laws of physics/nature then I would probably assume that it was caused by an...
It is nice to meet somebody who knows more about Australia than Australians do. Why is it that many Australians are willing to "fry" despite the calam...
I fully support the use of heat pumps where they are appropriate. But as usual, the devil is in the details. Heat pumps look good on paper, but there ...
Small ??? I think that you are in denial Mikie. Some recent research, reported on this webpage: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-...
You seem to believe that all climate deniers are the same. At the extreme point of denial. In reality there is a spectrum of denial. Your attitude is ...
Many people will cooperate if they are asked nicely. But when you are nasty to them, and call them insulting names, then they are likely to dig their ...
Calling people "deniers" creates an "us and them" mentality. This makes it even less likely to get cooperation. People who call other people "deniers"...
The following excerpts come from the Financial Times article https://www.ft.com/content/21beeb8d-08de-46db-97c4-a976d3f0b90c ‘Outraged and furious’: G...
The United States (and probably many other countries) traditionally has a policy against negotiating with terrorists. If you get too extreme then you ...
The Golden Rule Treat others as you would like others to treat you. Bullies love this rule. They don't follow it, but they are protected by the rule f...
Insulting and bullying people, and exaggerating the effects of climate change, does not cause most people to make major changes. A carrot usually work...
How many countries do you think would be willing to instigate martial law to fight climate change? What will be done to countries which refuse to inst...
Are you saying that the existence of sceptics shows that there are people who are not feeling the impacts of climatic change? Who are you going to bel...
I can no longer see the "Climate Change (General Discussion)" discussion on the main page. The most recent post is 8 hours ago but the discussion is n...
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