RE: webnet & HAL9000
> Sentience means the ability to SENSE or perceive...
The definition of "sentient," according to Webster's, is "of or capable
of feeling; conscious." Merriam Webster's dictionary.com defines it as
"1. the quality or state of being sentient; consciousness; 2. feeling as
distinguished from perception or thought."
So, I must take exception to your partial definition. When speaking of
AI or any fake intelligencer, the terms are very important.
In my defition of sentience, it has to do with awareness of one's
existence and one's ability to affect the environment in which one finds
oneself.
> and there are many robot applications today which DO
> employ various sensory (and sensory interpretation) mechanisms.
...and it's all programmed. They do no "thinking." They are not
"intelligent." They are NOT artificial intelligence, but rather, fake
intelligence (FI).
> And some AI efforts are in fact BASED upon such.
"AI efforts" is a misnomer. Better: "expert systems" efforts or "fake
intelligence" efforts.
The Turing Test is a great start. One your "AI" can fake intelligence
good enough to trick a human being, THEN you might consider adding some
other sentient functionality. However, like I already said, true AI will
NOT (never) occur in your lifetime, my lifetime, or that of my
grandchildren.
True AI will require a whole new approach to developing sentient machine
life.
> Never say never; it may bite your backside.
Never! At least, not yet. ;)
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