Re: AI in FT (was Re: Be gentle...)

At 08:31 PM 7/14/97 -0700, you wrote:

>> > 6) Humans actually HAVE developed sapient AIs in secret military
labs.
>> > However, they can't get any of them to risk their artificial selves
to
fight
>> > a war (I've actually got a story idea for this scenario). Lacking
the human
>> > "frailties" of love, pride, hate, and personal sacrifice, they
simply won't
>> > risk themselves. They KNOW they don't have a soul and that for them
there is
>> > nothing beyond this "life," so they damned well won't risk
themselves.
Those
>> > that have been programmed around this problem have become
functionally
insane.
>> 
>> I can go along with that.
>
>Me too.

That seems to be the main common ground between both positions. Strange,
but
we may soon be able to create something that is not only smarter but
with
more common sense than ourselves...

Allan Goodall:	agoodall@sympatico.ca 
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