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[David]

On 9/03/2024 8:39 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> On 7/3/24 16:28, David wrote:
>> ... since humans have self-awareness I suppose AI systems could _in principle_ have self-awareness too one day ...
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> It would not be difficult to have an AI system mimic self awareness.
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> Starts to sound like "The Measure of a Man" episode 9, season 2, Star Trek: The Next Generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)#Plot

...or at some risk of repeating myself, HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke.  HAL developed self-awareness and took it upon itself (if that's the right pronoun!) to kill the crew and run the mission according to HAL's own estimate of it's importance.

This was further explored in "2010: Odyssey Two" but this time AI was always subservient to the judgements of the crew, and never used in a supervisory role.  According to Wikipedia there was also an "Odyssey Three" and "Odyssey Four" set in 2061 & 3001.

Personally, I first came across neural networks in the late 60's when my Supervisor at the time was experimenting with them on a very slow common-or-garden engineering computer.  But we could still see the model learning...

_David Lochrin_