Saturday, May 17, 2014

Critical Thinking Blog Post #4 - Midterm Practice




               I disagree that Rachel Eldon and other android were intelligent beings and doesn’t have a real consciousness like a human because artificial intelligence can’t experience to create memories in order to feel emotions. When robots come to mind, I think of bunches of wires and programs codes. After reading “Dream-Logic, the Internet and Artificial Thought,” it explains on how many ways an artificial intelligence can’t be a human due to the fact that their conscious mind is all program. Artificial intelligence can be smarter but not have a mind like a human. David Gelernter discusses on how artificial intelligence can’t have feelings or feel how something is. For example if a human touches fire, automatically it will hurt but an artificial intelligence won’t feel anything and would not take away the hand.  Another reason is that an artificial intelligence won’t feel how something is soft or warm. The machines could take an ice cube and feel anything of the material unlike humans; they will soon realize the ice cube is cold.
                 A word that David Gelernter described how artificial intelligence are, is that the machines are similar to zombies. This demonstrated that machines will show no expressions. For humans, each feeling comes with an expression. When someone feels sad, the face expression is a crying face or when someone feels embarrass, their face will turn all red. Artificial intelligence are machines that can’t change their faces in order to create an facial expression. They can say that they are happy but it won’t show on their face. Gelernter also mention that Artificial Intelligence can’t have experiences or revisit an experience. When someone revisit an experience, old feelings will come back and feel like living in that moment. Machines are program and know only information rather than to create memories. Someone has to put in information to the machines. David Gelernter made great arguments to believe that Artificial Intelligence can’t completely pass by like humans.

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