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RE: Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 09/02/18> Can bots actually think for themselves… if so, what about emotions?
Oooft, that "can AI outsmart human intelligence" debate again! I've debated it on other forums, and you'd be amazed at the amount written on this topic. I generally think the clincher is emotions and free will, but when I've searched online there are scientific papers discussing these issues at length. There are many who think AIs can have free will OR that humans actually don't have the free will we think we have.
But until the day when an AI halts what it's been programmed to do because it just fancies a drink of engine oil, I won't believe that bots can think for themselves.
UNLESS... the people who have developed the bots on Steemit occasionally just go and write the bots' messages for them, just to bewilder all of us!
Yes, I didn't know what I was getting into when I wrote this, I might have to start writing in the daytime. My mind at the end of the day is sometimes questionable to say the least.
Like I said in another reply, the "A" in AI is for artificial which means "Fake" so there is no intelligence in AI , it is just a fancy name for another powerful computer and all computers are programmed by someone with actual intelligence.
And there are computers right now that will stop what is taking place for that drink of engine oil, most cars and trucks have it where the computer can shut the engine down on loss of oil pressure. So while the computer may not need the actual drink, its buddy, the engine does. Even still though, it isn't a decision that the computer made it is a programmed response to a condition.
That's it! People who don't believe in free will, even for computers, say that all our "choices" are really programmed responses to conditions. It can get quite esoteric from there.
Okay, I avoided the free will.
There is such a thing as free will for humans. It became extinct probably two days after man was created, as one person decided to exercise control over another person. Ever since that day, when control was exercised, free will no longer exists in reality, but continues to exist in thought.
You can't have free will with rulers or governments, not true free will. So everything we do is a response to some sort of condition or law.
Sure their may be times during the day that you can do as you please or do nothing at all if you please, but at the end of the day you will have done something that was done that was a response to a condition or law.
You will have done something or you will have kept from doing something because of the conditions that have been set and that is because we have been conditionally programmed over our life time to abide to rules and regulations.
So we are no better than the machines we create and program if a person wanted to look at it that way. In fact, we are actually less, because we could exercise free will but are to fearful of what that might entail. Just my thoughts and now you know why I avoided it the first time I replied.
Oh my, that's another topic altogether, and a massive one...the human condition(ing). Too much for my brain at almost bedtime - goodness, there's society's conditioning as well as the government's laws, and then there's the subconscious programming from all our experiences in life...yes, time for bed I think!
Enjoy your sleep. Good night,