[Buddha-l] Does robots have consciousness?

[Curt Steinmetz]

Lord Buddha protect us and save us from this!!!!

My favorite headline about this phenomenon so far is "Relentless 
headless dog robot spells doom for human race."

As far as consciousness goes, though, keep in mind that the field of 
Artificial Intelligence grew out of the earliest beginnings in computer 
science over half a century ago. Today we now have computers that can 
play chess, but none that can beat a human at bridge - and we now have a 
robot that can simulate some of the activity of a reptilian brain. But 
still nothing like actual "consciousness".

When a computer and/or robot possesses consciousness we will know it 
because it will tells us so. Even more convincing would be a computer 
that is capable of asking itself the question "am I conscious - and if 
so, what does that mean.... and who the hell am I, anyway?"

Curt Steinmetz

Wong Weng Fai wrote:
>
> We are pretty near the Star Wars/Matrix era...
>
> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU
>
> W.F. Wong
>
> Note: The company is a spin-off from MIT Legs Lab. The project is 
> funded by DARPA. No prize for guessing the intended use of this thing. 
> Imagine an Iraq war with zero American casualties coz only robots are 
> used.
>
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