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>From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Humongous table-lookup misapprehensions
Keywords: table-lookup,AI
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Date: 30 Jan 92 10:48:09 GMT
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In article <1992Jan28.164711.8184@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny) writes:
>In article <1992Jan25.224700.8656@ida.liu.se> c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (Pontus Gagge) writes:
>>This would yield an entire new area to quibble over; how to estimate
>>the amount of "canned" intelligence in a purported AI. Could this be
>>done without inspection? Or is there no such "gradual" canning in the
>>real (if future) world?
>
>Simple: it has native intelligence, insofar, and inasmuch, as it can be
>ascribed free will by an omniscient observer possessed of a perfect insight
>into its construction and functioning.

That seems like a rather hard-to-use definition, since we don't have any
omniscient observers with perfect insight to ask whether any given object
can be ascribed free will.

Furthermore, by what rules would the omniscient observer ascribe free will
to something, based on the insight into its construction and functioning?
Did you have any particular rules in mind? Or is it up to the omniscient
observer to define what constitutes free will? In that case I suppose we
will not be able to learn much more about this until we find one of these
omniscient observers to ask. On the other hand, if you do have some
particular rules in mind, perhaps it would be productive to replace the
reference to the omniscient observer in the definition, with an explicit
description of those rules.

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