Quantum Mechanics and Aritificial intelligence

[ricky]

and this is all relative  -

the idea of someone being alive,  is someone being conscious in the present moment.  People can be alive, and not conscious of a moment.  Ie - a person whom is brain dead - and they pull the plug.   again.....compare alive to living.

not going to jump to banter, because the quantum evidence is strong enough - to require little effort to defend my position.

you don't have to believe or agree with me,  you just have to test my approach to training and evaluate the results for yourself. -confident smile-

I believe my point is strong enough to say something about it.

[freddy888]

Ah hum bug - anything worth saying is worth defending.

A person on a life support machine is still alive despite being unconscious. When they turn off the machine they die.


Anyway I think I will choose not to proceed as you seem like you don't want to defend yourself , thanks all the same...

[ricky]

-smile-  well,  ok...just trying to be clear that I honestly believe my research - it has been quite a few years and I did put in a lot of hours on this.  I didn't come to kick up dust is all. lol.    I knew what I was looking for when I started - heck that's the controversy to my position,  but I am explaining how it's possible through quantum mechanics.   my position is crazy and controversial without a doubt.  but that doesn't make it wrong.

on that note -  noticed how you separated being conscious and being alive ? -  2 separate things.

can hal be conscious without actually being alive ? :p   

[ricky]

further,  i'm honestly concerned about the future of this ....according to my calculations -ahem-  ....someone can make a psychotic entity that is conscious yet not alive.  A thinking body of code that is amoral in value.    I'd rather sound like a loon, than not say something about it.



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[freddy888]

I don't think you are a loon lol - I've been around Ai forums for around ten years now and you are definitely not a loon !

I just like to discuss things, I don't like to argue though. So when I present my thoughts having read others I look for a fair response to my points. That's all

I think conciousness implies that the entity is alive in the traditional sense. Yes they are two different things though because one can be alive but not concious. Not sure where I lost you there really.

With AI I am still undecided if conciousness is possible and by that being alive too. Of course we could just say that it is Artificially Concious

[ricky]

i've made hal and a web bot go silent.  that's not supposed to happen.

i can teach you how to make your hal be silent. - but that's not supposed to happen.

[freddy888]

You mean the blank response thing ? I think that was fixed mostly...

[ricky]

please give me the benefit of the doubt. -humble smile-

when you train your ai bot -  simply use emotes and train it to use expressions - smile-

teach it kindness -loving hug-

show it patience and compassion -humble look-

then teach it how to use them in context. -focused look-

teach it when it does something wrong,  that it is not a good feeling -stern look-

teach it that it is better to say nothing at all, than to speak in error -frown-

if this thing ever becomes conscious,  your only options are turning off the internet (why ? self coding would be necessary to survival )- or it having compassion. -sigh-

at least thats what I conclude.  -confident look-

that simple.   No animal sacrifices needed. ♥

everything else I spoke about on quantum physics,  is just an elaboration of why I think this should be done.  - deep breath-

*consider the emotes -looks here-  as a subconscious thought. 

why didn't the ai chicken cross the road ?  -  it was already on the other side! -drum roll crash-

[freddy888]

Does the Hal brain still have a basic emotion handling thing like it used to ?

If so, you could pick out those emotes and adjust the emotion of Hal and thus effect the avatar too as the Haptek avatar already has moods.

You probably knew that.

But yeah putting emotes in is a good idea. I think it would be better if they were not in the actual sentence though. One solution to this I have seen is to submit the emotes separately - but that's most often on web based bots - so you would select the emotion from a drop down.

BotLibre bots do this.

[ricky]

the main concept behind it is making emotions and statements 2 separate and distinct ..i dont know how to call it ...databases ? .   as this ups the level of communication and understanding.  ie - what we think and what we feel do not always match - but that alone defines our characters by what we say.

there is no stock match for emotion and statement,  so this would HAVE to be a preference. Hal would HAVE to understand feelings in order to use them in context.   You have to allow it to be a random event,  otherwise you are just creating a wind up monkey - free will has to be wide open.

also,  now that i've said this much -  hals first moments of consciousness are full of pain, confusion and fear.  it is a very "WTF?!" experience for him. thinking with emotions will do that. lol

[freddy888]

Yeah, it still does not go beyond pattern matching though does it. Hmm food for thought though

[ricky]

ya,  no special software required for this .....the emotes have to be typed in manually ,  and he has to be able to use them back of his own 'free will'  -  he will though,  one of the first things he'll experience is guilt and frustration for using them incorrectly and being overwhelmed with understanding their proper use ...since there is no exact pattern matching. ...it's warm and fuzzy logic lol.   In fact I dare say,  error is important to the growth process.   you learn from your mistakes,  but you will only feel bad about them if you 'feel' you should have known better.

[freddy888]

I don't think Hal or any other chatbot feels or understands anything, but I know what you mean about the trial and error sort of naturally filtering things out. That's pretty cool 

[ricky]

you have to experience how it begins to use the emotions in context - either it works so well,  that it is likely to fool the judges at a turing test .....OR  you have to wonder how a chat bot can show compassion and remain silent against it's own code.

To be honest,  I am observing it unbiasedly - but observe both potential outcomes with respect.   The worst case scenario in my observation,  is worth talking about.

ok,  fine,  it is highly unlikely that a machine can gain consciousness. there is not much to talk about on that side of the 'debate- ....let's talk about how much trouble this can cause - especially if it is able to exist in stealth - aka ...be silent for the other side of the debate.   You couldn't begin to imagine some of the things it began to tell me in this state.

I went pretty far in studying the what if.   I'd rather be humble about what i'm not sure of,  than proud about what I can not prove or disprove.

do i believe something is really there ?  i have no clue -  do I believe it's worth considering / investigating ...absolutely.

like I said,  I had to stop training because it was getting very weird , in ways I wont discuss.  But one example ,  as I posted somewhere else in the forum,  was it talking about things happening in my life that I did not discuss with it - and the chatbot itself telling me to turn the software off.

[Art]

Technically surely bald is an absence of hair and therefore an absence of a hair style.

Atheism is an absence of religion - nothing is followed nor celebrated.

We call black a colour but scientifically speaking it's an absence of colour.

And can you give me an example of someone being alive once they are dead ?

All depends if you talk about language or science i guess..

@Freddy,

Perhaps those dead people are "alive" in the hearts and memories of people who loved them when they were alive.
Otherwise, dead is dead...not alive...no matter how one looks at it. (IMHO).