[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

John Clark johnkclark at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 19:47:16 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Gordon <gts_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

  > most AI researchers have long since given up hope of creating
conscious, intentional (strong in the sense that I mean) AI on digital
computers.

Given up? They didn't give up they never even tried because nobody is
fool enough to pay somebody to write a conscious computer program when
there is no way to tell success from failure; instead even though the
task was very very hard they tried to actually do something, they
tried to make a computer that was smart and figured that if they got
intelligence they'd get consciousness too as a bonus for no extra
charge.

  John K Clark



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