<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>John,</span></div><div style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="yui_3_7_2_18_1366926448451_58" style="font-size: 16px;"><div class="yui_3_7_2_18_1366926448451_62"><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-size: 12pt;">>> most AI researchers have long since given up hope of creating<br>>> conscious, intentional (strong in the sense that I mean) AI on digital<br>>> computers.<br><br>> they never even tried because nobody is fool enough to pay somebody to write a </div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-size: 12pt;">> conscious computer program when there is no way to tell success from failure..<br></div><div class="y_msg_container" style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font size="3">There may come a day when
this is an ethical question. Let us say we create AI androids that appear to be alive and </font>conscious<font size="3">. They walk among us ordinary meat-people. Will it be murder to shoot one? Or will it merely be property damage? I think it will depend on whether we have reason to think they actually know of their own existence.</font></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font size="3"><br></font></div><div class="y_msg_container"><font size="3">I would like sometimes to shoot my stand-alone chess computer. It sometimes seems as if there is a cunning SOB living in that box. I think spike can relate. But I also know it would not be murder. My chess computer is no more conscious than a rock. </font></div></div></div></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br>-Gordon</div> </div></body></html>