I don't believe that computers will become conscious.

Conscious beings weren't assembled from manmade parts strewn together from factories around the world. We were created organically in our mother's womb.

An automatic sweeper, for example, can't look at a floor, recognize that it's dirty and needs to be cleaned, and then clean it. It just rolls around and sucks because we told it to. And even if we come out with ones that only go to work when the floor is dirty, it STILL didn't determine that by itself. It's not conscious.

We can make machines more intelligent but intelligence is not consciousness.

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TrashCat · M

I've heard this same argument before and I say poppycock

SinlessOnslaught · M

@TrashCat Why?

TrashCat · M

@SinlessOnslaught The same argument was made in Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein". Truthfully, it's arrogant to believe that only Humans can have a conscience. You made the comment, "An automatic sweeper, for example, can't look at a floor, recognize that it's dirty and needs to be cleaned". That's also an untrue and has nothing to do with a conscious. A highly-technical machine can scan a floor surface and determine if it has debris on it.

SinlessOnslaught · M

@TrashCat Like I said in my OP, we can design a sweeper to scan for debris and clean it up. That's still not consciousness.

TrashCat · M

@SinlessOnslaught Why bring it up? It convolutes the entire question

SinlessOnslaught · M

@TrashCat You just brought it up.

TrashCat · M

@SinlessOnslaught It's in your post!

SinlessOnslaught · M

@TrashCat Oh I see what you're saying. Look. You said,

A highly-technical machine can scan a floor surface and determine if it has debris on it.

My response to that is,

An automatic sweeper, for example, can't look at a floor, recognize that it's dirty and needs to be cleaned, and then clean it. It just rolls around and sucks because we told it to. And even if we come out with ones that only go to work when the floor is dirty, it STILL didn't determine that by itself. It's not conscious.

legodood · M

@TrashCat Vincent Price,you do get bonus points for posting a famous gif from one of the greatest horror films of all time. 👏