tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post116135966964762740..comments2023-10-30T04:16:25.917-04:00Comments on Sentient Developments: TTA screening of "Building Gods"Georgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6753820.post-1161397418267820122006-10-20T22:23:00.000-04:002006-10-20T22:23:00.000-04:00Michael: Admittedly, saying they "were able to hol...Michael: Admittedly, saying they "were able to hold their own during the conversation" may have been overstating the point. More accurately, we were able to advance the conversation beyond a certain level that the general population normally won't touch - things like cognitive functionalism (rather than vitalism), open-mindedness about both the prospect and desirability of uploading (rather than outright yuck-factor), and general humanist principles (rather than religion and ideas of hubris).<BR/><BR/>Interestingly, there was one attendee who at a very rudimentary level started to grok the poorly programmed SAI problem and began to spontaneously throw some quarantine/sandbox ideas at me. This goes beyond the kind of thinking and language that I've come to expect from the so-called man on the street. <BR/><BR/>That said, there were several people in the audience who refused to believe that AI could ever mature to this point and attain any semblance of "intuition" and qualia that characterizes human consciousness. So, it was a fairly mixed bag.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13003484633933455827noreply@blogger.com