If at some point in the future an artificial intelligence claims to be self aware and a battery of Turing type tests show it's indistinguishable from self aware humans, would you concede it IS self aware or see it as a simulation of self awareness?
Depends on the details of how it is programmed. If it's like Deep Blue (was that the name of the famous chess computer?), which required a team of people to maintain it, then no. If it is able to support itself and adapt, then maybe.
We can not allow that thing to be created. As soon as something becomes self aware, it's now a threat to all of humanity. It will try to get rid of us.
If you don't give it a body, it's just a program.
If you don't give it access to the internet, it can't become a worm and could be contained to study it.
I don't expect it to be some out of control armed robocop.
Just a program running in a number cruncher.
Every movie and video game that has AI has had them turn evil and kill humans. Is that the human programmer putting their own bias into the program? Maybe, but all life forms do their best to protect themselves and an artificial one would be no different.
There's this gut feeling it's still fake but I don't trust my gut.
I say if a simulation is indistinguishable from reality, it's the real thing.
Actually, I can't prove anyone but myself is self aware 👅
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