[ExI] People often think their chatbot is alive

[Dave S]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 5:28 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> [...] They spontaneously (and endlessly!) ask questions.
> They want to know "but why??" about every sodding thing. I remember
> being like this myself, and driving my father up the wall. I reckon that
> when a machine starts exhibiting the same behaviour, we can be pretty
> sure it is conscious, or at least well on the way.
>

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.

-Dave
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