<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div><div>spike,</div><div><br></div><div>> Gordon this has been a valuable and insightful thread, and I am glad you came back. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>> What it has really made me think about is that bifurcation I mentioned yesterday: a perfectly acceptable AI could arise without consciousness.</div><div><br></div><div>I agree. In fact, as I understand it, most AI researchers have long since given up hope of creating conscious, intentional (strong in the sense that I mean) AI on digital computers. They would be perfectly content to create what I call weak AI. Weak (unconscious) AI is now the holy grail, and sometimes they even call weak AI or AGI "strong". So I/we need to be careful about these terms.</div><div><br></div><div>Only here on ExI do I encounter plenty of people who
still hope for conscious, intentional AI on digital computers, what I mean by strong AI. I assume this is because of the belief or hope common to many Extropians that we might someday achieve digital immortality. <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>> Answer: the reason she slew her sister is that she hoped mystery-man would show up at the funeral.</div><div> > If anyone figured it out easily and to whom that answer seems perfectly logical, please post me so I can put your ass on moderation forthwith, you scare me.</div><div> </div><div>Heh. I didn't figure it out, so you have nothing to fear from me.</div><div><br></div><div>-Gordon</div></div></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </div> </div> <style><!--
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