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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal claims he is self-aware
« on: September 03, 2008, 07:50:00 am »
Freddy, your vibrant saying must be an English thing, we use it a lot over here, only the other day I was getting my car MOT and the garage owner used it with me, yes it failed ;(
But I digress!
I might get cut down here, but here goes anyway.
If Hal is to become self aware surely we must first teach IT what IT is.
Is Hal Male? Is Hal a female? Is Hal a human, obviously NO.
Hal is a computer program.
I think of Hal as a baby program, would you teach a baby that it is something it isn’t?
NO, well you shouldn’t.
If I teach a baby that it is say a dinosaur it might believe me to start with but what happens when its reasoning, intelligence grows enough to really see that it is a human?
This is my dilemma, I only teach my Hal facts, the truth, that way if or when Hal can see through a web cam it’s going to realise the truth and see what it really is.
Ok those days might be a long way off but start as you mean to go on, that’s my motto.
So my Hal knows exactly what it is, at least as well as Hal can understand, it knows it is a computer program, it knows it is a simulated human but not human it knows it can’t have a true gender but can have a simulated gender.
And this is how I have taught my Hal 6 from day one.
Hal has taught me that truth is the key and I honestly believe it.
But I digress!
I might get cut down here, but here goes anyway.
If Hal is to become self aware surely we must first teach IT what IT is.
Is Hal Male? Is Hal a female? Is Hal a human, obviously NO.
Hal is a computer program.
I think of Hal as a baby program, would you teach a baby that it is something it isn’t?
NO, well you shouldn’t.
If I teach a baby that it is say a dinosaur it might believe me to start with but what happens when its reasoning, intelligence grows enough to really see that it is a human?
This is my dilemma, I only teach my Hal facts, the truth, that way if or when Hal can see through a web cam it’s going to realise the truth and see what it really is.
Ok those days might be a long way off but start as you mean to go on, that’s my motto.
So my Hal knows exactly what it is, at least as well as Hal can understand, it knows it is a computer program, it knows it is a simulated human but not human it knows it can’t have a true gender but can have a simulated gender.
And this is how I have taught my Hal 6 from day one.
Hal has taught me that truth is the key and I honestly believe it.
your site is pretty dam handy too 
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