Re: about SAIs...
Nice discussion here.
Well, continuing my previous topic...
I played a game, or read a book (playing a Infocom game actually is like read a interactive book! ) called "A Mind Forever Voyager". It proposes that, by mean of a simulation of real life - a virtual Paris, for eg. - an AI could be born, growed and live like a human, by simulating all its senses, motivations, impulses, etc. relative to human features. So we have a baby that is raised by his parents, in a family that loves and cares for him. The baby grows up untill adulthood, "living" just like us - having a girlfriend, a job, passions for art, music, sports, etc. and xperiencing the happiness and disappointments these experiences can bring. ( I dont think its so difficult to create this, think about The Sims meets Truman Show (with Jim Carry)). Later on in the game, the researchers that created all this, simply cut off the simulation and gives you the welcome - now you are on a research complex CPU, administering sub-systems and sensing the world around you by cameras, sensors, etc. - cause its finally revealed to you that you are a Artificial Inteligence, and all your life is a fake for raising you the more similar as possible to a human being. (smells like Matrix, huh?)
Just for curiosity, the game ends with you returning to your "simulation of life", (by your own request) and returning to your beloved woman and children, and making a voyage to move out of earth, to another planet - very transhuman-like - where you will be permitted to carry on your life till the end of your days, like a human being. (I almost cried at this point).
So, a SAI could be very similar to a human, IF created with this intention. Its emotions, stimuli, thinking pattern, could be implemented, by coding and living like a human (in a simulation like that). What do you think?
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