Greetings and salutations. I am looking forwards to perusing your arguments and technical assertions. I come more from philosophy with a current educational...
G
gmw@...
Feb 11, 2000 1:05 pm
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Hello! My name is Scott Gannett. I live and work in the Reno, Nevada area. I enjoy programming computers as a hobby and have always had a keen interest in ...
SWGannett@...
Mar 11, 2000 8:22 pm
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I just installed a new speech recognition system on my home PC...for the first time I really feel like I'm in the year 2000. Speaking of Furbies... When I talk...
Chris and Jessie McKi...
mckinstry@...
Mar 11, 2000 8:47 pm
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ArConDevites: Hi. I am pleased to find that there already *is* a forum for the development of artificial consiousness. I reached this list through a post of...
Randolph K Jones
ranjo@...
Apr 3, 2000 9:20 pm
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Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the arcondev group: I am actively attempting to create an artificial consciousness. o Yes o No o No, because...
arcondev@egroups.com
Apr 14, 2000 11:55 am
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Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the arcondev group: MindPixels might be useful in creating artificial consciousness. o Yes o No o Don't know...
arcondev@egroups.com
Apr 14, 2000 11:57 am
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Enter your vote today! Check out the new poll for the arcondev group: Artificial Consciousness is possible. o Yes o No o Don't know To vote, please visit the...
arcondev@egroups.com
Apr 14, 2000 11:58 am
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Hi. I decided that I may as well introduce myself. I came into AI through the back door, although I have always been interested. I was doing research in...
James Rogers
jamesr@...
Apr 14, 2000 9:00 pm
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... When a CAT scanner is imaging a brain, what is it doing? Let's abstract the process: Consider: 1- the brain a black box 2- the scanner sends a signal...
Chris and Jessie McKi...
mckinstry@...
Apr 14, 2000 10:13 pm
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Notes by SCIENCE-WEEK [http://scienceweek.com] 9Jul99 [For more information: http://scienceweek.com/search/search.htm] IN FOCUS: ON THINKING MACHINES "Instead...
Randolph K Jones
ranjo@...
Apr 18, 2000 10:50 pm
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... A MindPixel trained corpus would answer like any person would, and for the same reason. If a person does not know about "IBM employees", "work" and "the...
Chris and Jessie McKi...
mckinstry@...
Apr 18, 2000 11:41 pm
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I would like to start a discussion about the ethics of creating artificial consciousness. ... Assume we have created an artificial consciousness (AC), that...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 27, 2000 6:13 am
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... I don't think it is a question of ethics (which would imply that according to ethics it would be okay). There may be a moral issue, but morality is what I...
Erik Olson
Erik@...
Apr 27, 2000 8:20 pm
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I don't think you would need to have achieved artificial consciousness to build this "terminator/virus". In 1984 I spent some time working through the...
Erik Olson
Erik@...
Apr 27, 2000 8:21 pm
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Interesting concepts... I have to admit that AC is something I have always envisioned for the direction of future technology and it scares me! Furbies are a...
SWGannett@...
Apr 28, 2000 4:17 am
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... Imagine a Furby that could pass the Turing Test... if you search ArConDev archive you will see some discussion about conscious Furbies (also in my...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 28, 2000 4:38 am
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Well, hi all. Now that things have picked up a bit and people have started to toss around words like 'intelligence' and 'consciousness', I thought I'd point...
Chris Campbell
chris.campbell@...
Apr 28, 2000 5:00 am
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... I essentially concur with Turing regarding intelligence/consciousness, we know other minds only through our interaction with them. However, there are some...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 28, 2000 5:37 am
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I agree with most of what you are saying, but the question still remains as to the definition of 'consciousness' -- what differentiates the human 'soul' and...
SWGannett@...
Apr 28, 2000 6:48 am
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... Turing's great insight was that it doesn't matter what the words 'conscious' or 'thinking' mean or what the actual difference is. If you cannot, to the...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 28, 2000 7:06 am
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... Maybe the list of recommended reading tacked onto the bottom of these emails should include Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.... He thought long and hard...
Andrew Cooke
andrew@...
Apr 28, 2000 7:43 am
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... My name is Dr. Freakenstein. I have here a system that no one can distinguish from human. It lives in a little virtual reality that it thinks is reality. I...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 28, 2000 8:06 am
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At 01:58 PM 4/27/00 -0400, you wrote: [...] ... Hi, This was a really interesting post (well, imho). The following are some related thoughts (not very well...
Andrew Cooke
andrew@...
Apr 28, 2000 8:08 am
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I needed some time to think about the rest of these. ... As I said before, ethics is not even an issue here. Morality might be, but to quote myself: Ethics...
Erik Olson
Erik@...
Apr 28, 2000 8:32 am
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... Didn't you have a web site for MIST at one time? I seem to recall a series of questions in an HTML form. Did you ever publish all the questions you...
David Whitten
whitten@...
Apr 28, 2000 8:08 pm
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... That's very interesting. I found the video you were talking about. It was on a very slow server. I stuck it on a really fast one. ...
Erik Olson
Erik@...
Apr 28, 2000 8:09 pm
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... Yes. I was collecting the items beginning in 1995. I managed to get some 450,000 of them. However, there was a lot of junk in the database. I'm working on...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 28, 2000 8:28 pm
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I have learned from Andrew Hodges, author of the famous and very hard to get book 'Alan Turing: The Enigma ' that a new edition of it will be published next...
Christopher McKinstry
cmckinst@...
Apr 30, 2000 12:49 am
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What's new in the new edition? I bought an old version a few weeks ago (new, from a bookshop here in the UK). Good book. I wrote a review that's at ...
andrew cooke
andrew@...
Apr 30, 2000 10:31 am
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... A new forward by Douglas Hofstader and a new preface. He will also have an update section on the web at: http://www.turing.org.uk/book/ Chris McKinstry ...
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