31st August 2005, 12:39 AM
If the AI behaves in such a way that there is no way to distinguish the difference, then logically we must conclude that, until future evidence states otherwise, the AI is actually I, true intelligence, and thus must be given the same rights as us.
Now, sci-fi is fun, but sometimes they run a "huge moral grey area" into the ground, like this one. It seems like such a very easy issue to resolve. Star Trek TNG seemed pretty content with their decision, why are we still debating over this?
Now, sci-fi is fun, but sometimes they run a "huge moral grey area" into the ground, like this one. It seems like such a very easy issue to resolve. Star Trek TNG seemed pretty content with their decision, why are we still debating over this?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)