Friday, July 29, 2011

is ai ethical? part1

Ai stands for artificial intelligence, a term that is loosely used by gamers.  The "ai" in video games is far from being intelligent and in fact is realy only bells and whistles.  This brings a much more important question to mind, what is ai.  most people would tell you that ai has not yet been created.  Some people will go so far as to tell you it can never be created..... i disagree.  While me may not yet have a fine line at which a computer becomes defined as intelligent we can use a tried and true method.  Compare a computers ability to something we define as intelligent, ourselves.  If and when a computer surpasses human intelligence we will be required to define it as intelligent.  Then we reach our ethical dilema are they to do our bidding or do they have freedom of choice?  If so they would simply be programmed to "choose" slavery and doing our bidding.  Would this be wrong, in fact would it even matter.  A computer cant feel emotion without having more than electronics (chemicals and organic parts such as the brain.)  It can however appear to have emotions, assuming it was programmed that way.  This will make it hard for people to decide whether or not it feels emotions such as pain and love, likely causing much debate over the true nature of the machine.

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