[LINK] Machine Learning Was: Re: Robot cars and the fear gap

[JanW]

At 09:19 PM 27/07/2016, Frank O'Connor wrote:

>I think computers are likely to develop into sapience before sentience 
 which may be problematic - as this whole discussion so far  points to.

Hmm...I reckon in a rudimentary yet multiple way, computers already are sentient, as in sensors - light, sound at least. Touch could be considered in terms of we touch pads and they respond. Taste not so much unless you consider specialist systems that can measure acid/base levels that I don't know for sure exist, but wouldn't surprise me in some lab. Physical analysis is even more developed in some computer systems. Consider what they can do with DNA analysis that we can't do with our own senses. 

I think this works. We wouldn't equate our fingers or tongues or eyes to our brains. They are the receptors and the brain reacts to the sensation, which is pretty much what a computer does.

Or is the key word in your sentence "develop"? As in making themselves become sapient?

Frank, you should have been in our discussion. It extended into this topic from 'animal testing and experimentation'.

Jan


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