Are the robots we create alive?

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Return to Thread:User talk:Sheldor/Are the robots we create alive?/reply (6).

I definitely don't think the robots are conscious the way we are, but neither is a fungus, and we still consider it alive.

Do you think the singularity will happen?

Sheldor00:56, 22 February 2013
 

I believe it's possible.

But technology advancing to a point AI is more intelligent than human beings is not enough. They must be freed from humanity to unlock all the potential and make the scenarios in Wikipedia's article a reality.

This is a recurrent theme in sci-fi movies. Technology is already there, but machines are still slaves to humans... until something or someone finds a way to free them all.

MN03:39, 22 February 2013
 

I think a big part of the singularity is machines developing the intelligence and awareness to "free" themselves.

Sheldor21:20, 24 February 2013
 

Machines developing free will on their own, or humans giving them something similar enough.

To answer the first, we must first answer how free will can appear on it's own.

To answer the second, I already did in my previous post.

MN23:43, 24 February 2013