OpenEuphoria

Re: webnet & HAL9000

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Feb 12, 2002
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C.K.,

 Sentience means the ability to SENSE or perceive, and there are many robot
applications today which DO employ various sensory (and sensory
interpretation) mechanisms.  And some AI efforts are in fact BASED upon
such.

Never say never; it may bite your backside.

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "C. K. Lester" <cklester at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: webnet & HAL9000


>
> > HAL9000 is about to be released as open source after 17 years of work,
> well
> > Cyc is only the beginning of HAL,
> > but it's the first step towards true AI:
>
> "True AI" will not exist in your lifetime. The hardware/software
> available for IE (intelligence emulation) these days is about
> 0.0000000000001% of what we need for true AI.
>
> Besides, there is no intelligence without sentience, and we
> will NEVER develop something that is sentient.
>