Agnostic Computers

Gabe · #1 10-16-2004, 02:54 PM

Last night thinking about the god and religion posts, I wondered, if after computers acquire consciousness, they will begin to question the existence of humans?

LokiV · #2 10-16-2004, 03:01 PM

Why would they question humans? They should be having direct interactions with them all the time.

Whereas any direct interaction with a higher power (assuming one exists for the analogy) is usually reserved for after your exit from the 'mortal plane'.

kalooki45 · #3 10-16-2004, 03:15 PM

LOL a pretty big "if" [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
But I sure hope so! What FUN it would be to see the scientists trying to persuade some machine that it's data didn't simply EVOLVE..('cause it will be able to prove logically that it did of course--if it's one of those 'smart' machines that can learn)
I love it..heh
Humans will be dismissed as "erroneous data" and DELETED..

tek · #4 10-16-2004, 05:28 PM

You could read a slew of books on the subject of interaction between humans and advanced AI by a Science Fiction writer named Isaac Asimov.

Scotch78 · #5 10-16-2004, 05:55 PM

I think you mean "skeptic" computers. An agnostic computer wouldn't be asking the questions so much as answering them with an "I don't know."

Scott

Gabe · #6 10-16-2004, 10:01 PM

Maybe the computers wouldn't know they were having direct interactions with humans. Maybe they might think it was nature.

steamboatin · #7 10-16-2004, 10:17 PM

I second that. Asimov rocks!

Can't remember the name of the story but I think it was in I,Robot whose movie has no ressembemce to the actual book.

Two robot technicians assemble a super smart robot that is programed to operate a power plant and it concludes that the Power Plant is God and they are obsolete units that He was created to replace.

They try to explain He was built by humans and He doesn't believe them.

Haven't read the book since high school or earlier so details are sketchy at best.

andyfox · #8 10-17-2004, 01:43 AM

Two fish in a fishbowl are arguing. Pretty soon it gets violent and after a while you see a bunch of gills and fins and stuff floating around, with the two exhausted and injured fish barely able to swim. Finally one says to the other, "Oh yeah, if there's no god, who changes the water?"

EjnarPik · #9 10-17-2004, 03:11 AM

Read Descartes, or easier, misinterpret the sentence and watch "Terminator."

Ejnar Pik, Southern-Docks.

EliteNinja · #10 10-17-2004, 05:58 AM

What is the Matrix? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]