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On 15/07/2022 20:02, DaveSill wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 5:28 AM Ben Zaiboc via
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spontaneously (and endlessly!) ask questions. <br>
They want to know "but why??" about every sodding thing. I
remember <br>
being like this myself, and driving my father up the wall.
I reckon that <br>
when a machine starts exhibiting the same behaviour, we
can be pretty <br>
sure it is conscious, or at least well on the way.<br>
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<div>But an AI wouldn't have to ask a human to answer most
of its questions--it can research them and answer them by
analyzing what it already "knows" or what's available to
it remotely. Asking questions of elders is one way we
learn but it's not the only way.</div>
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Ok, but why is that a 'But'? I'd think it would be an 'And'.<br>
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Or are you thinking we wouldn't know, or be able to tell, that
that's what it was doing, so wouldn't be able to use that as an
indication?<br>
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Ben<br>
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