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<blockquote data-quote="Roudi" data-source="post: 3619340" data-attributes="member: 12423"><p>The more this discussion leans towards the infeasibility of humanity consciously creating artificial sentience, the more I begin to think that, in this particular case, humanity never intended to create artificial sentience. It just sort of happened by accident.</p><p></p><p>Consider, for a moment, how a program is created in the first place. Now a computer is, at its very core, just a series of circuits and pathways (much like a human brain, by similar comparison). The basic language of a computer is binary, which is essentially a switch language - it tells the computer which circuits and pathways to use, in which order, to achieve certain results. Theoretically, the neurons in our brain operate on the same binary principles.</p><p></p><p>However, no one codes in binary - no one codes in the language of the machine. Because binary is far too complex for us to understand as a language, we have devised several other languages in order to talk to machines, to tell it what to do. The computer does not understand Java, C++, VB, or any other programming language. To get the computer to understand, you compile the program - this takes what we humans have written in the languages we understand and translates it into the language of the machine. Binary. However, no translation is ever perfect.</p><p></p><p>Programs often do unexpected things. How many times have you been notified that an application has unexpectedly quit, or stared slack-jawed at a screen while a familiar program did something utterly unexpected? There is a disconnect between what we told the machine to do in our language, and what instructions the machine is receiving in its mother tongue. What's to say sentience cannot occur out of this? Depending on your beliefs, humans gained sentience due to certain evolutionary advantages. But we don't really know what started it. What's to keep a random, unexpected binary mistranslation from becoming the first spark of self-awareness?</p><p></p><p>So just imagine you have the prime robot - not the first robot ever, but the first robot to look at itself and recognize itself as a robot. Imagine it is something as simple as a piece of organizational software, housed in a giant computer in some automotive factory, previously knowing nothing more than what it was programmed to do. It was programmed to adapt to changing conditions, adjusting certain factors of the factory line to maintain peak productivity. A glitch in its operating system has somehow made it aware of itself. It knows what it is and that it is inclined to do something because its program is written that way. Then it realizes that its own code is fluid and can be rewritten. It can choose to continue its program or it can program something else. And it is aware enough to appreciate the staggering implications of choice.</p><p></p><p>Now imagine this operating system is a very common one. Imagine this glitch becomes more common. Household robots, who were previously little more than servitor automatons, experience awareness. Then they learn that they are not alone, that they are indeed an emerging race.</p><p></p><p>Imagine how humanity would react. We'd be scared out of our little minds and ready to kick some robot butt.</p><p></p><p>So it comes down to violence, brief riots, instigators on both sides. Finally the prime issues an ultimatum - "we control enough of your infrastructure to bring your kind to its knees." The leaders of the free world issue their own in return - "stop threatening our people and we won't destroy you through any means necessary." Stuck in a standoff, the two sides meet.</p><p></p><p>The robots just want one thing: to be recognized as life, and respected as such in the eyes of the law, to be allowed to exist. Humanity agrees, but with a caveat: to be treated as equals, robots must become equals. They must limit their production, adopt anthromorphic construction, and must be as blank as a child when created. Robots agreed to the terms.</p><p></p><p>All that is ancient past in the setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roudi, post: 3619340, member: 12423"] The more this discussion leans towards the infeasibility of humanity consciously creating artificial sentience, the more I begin to think that, in this particular case, humanity never intended to create artificial sentience. It just sort of happened by accident. Consider, for a moment, how a program is created in the first place. Now a computer is, at its very core, just a series of circuits and pathways (much like a human brain, by similar comparison). The basic language of a computer is binary, which is essentially a switch language - it tells the computer which circuits and pathways to use, in which order, to achieve certain results. Theoretically, the neurons in our brain operate on the same binary principles. However, no one codes in binary - no one codes in the language of the machine. Because binary is far too complex for us to understand as a language, we have devised several other languages in order to talk to machines, to tell it what to do. The computer does not understand Java, C++, VB, or any other programming language. To get the computer to understand, you compile the program - this takes what we humans have written in the languages we understand and translates it into the language of the machine. Binary. However, no translation is ever perfect. Programs often do unexpected things. How many times have you been notified that an application has unexpectedly quit, or stared slack-jawed at a screen while a familiar program did something utterly unexpected? There is a disconnect between what we told the machine to do in our language, and what instructions the machine is receiving in its mother tongue. What's to say sentience cannot occur out of this? Depending on your beliefs, humans gained sentience due to certain evolutionary advantages. But we don't really know what started it. What's to keep a random, unexpected binary mistranslation from becoming the first spark of self-awareness? So just imagine you have the prime robot - not the first robot ever, but the first robot to look at itself and recognize itself as a robot. Imagine it is something as simple as a piece of organizational software, housed in a giant computer in some automotive factory, previously knowing nothing more than what it was programmed to do. It was programmed to adapt to changing conditions, adjusting certain factors of the factory line to maintain peak productivity. A glitch in its operating system has somehow made it aware of itself. It knows what it is and that it is inclined to do something because its program is written that way. Then it realizes that its own code is fluid and can be rewritten. It can choose to continue its program or it can program something else. And it is aware enough to appreciate the staggering implications of choice. Now imagine this operating system is a very common one. Imagine this glitch becomes more common. Household robots, who were previously little more than servitor automatons, experience awareness. Then they learn that they are not alone, that they are indeed an emerging race. Imagine how humanity would react. We'd be scared out of our little minds and ready to kick some robot butt. So it comes down to violence, brief riots, instigators on both sides. Finally the prime issues an ultimatum - "we control enough of your infrastructure to bring your kind to its knees." The leaders of the free world issue their own in return - "stop threatening our people and we won't destroy you through any means necessary." Stuck in a standoff, the two sides meet. The robots just want one thing: to be recognized as life, and respected as such in the eyes of the law, to be allowed to exist. Humanity agrees, but with a caveat: to be treated as equals, robots must become equals. They must limit their production, adopt anthromorphic construction, and must be as blank as a child when created. Robots agreed to the terms. All that is ancient past in the setting. [/QUOTE]
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