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Article 5945 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: AI failures
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Date: 27 May 92 17:54:40 GMT
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References: <uc2m8INNn5d@early-bird.think.com> <1992May8.155052.13848@psych.toronto.edu> <uetinINNco5@early-bird.think.com> <1992May10.003028.19333@psych.toronto.edu> <umpm0INNpv8@early-bird.think.com> <9348@scott.ed.ac.uk>
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In article <9348@scott.ed.ac.uk> dlh@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Dominik Lukes) writes:
|In article <umpm0INNpv8@early-bird.think.com> moravec@Think.COM (Hans Moravec) writes:
|>When I make an AI, I will be sure to construct it so it wants,
|>passionately, to do only and exactly what I want it to do.
|>So if you *ask it*, it will say just that.
|
|Your are not the first with this idea, Kilgore Trout had it first, but
|it didn't work then. Maybe it depends on how you write your program.
|Dominik

Didn't Isaac Asimov beat him to it, in his 'robot' stories?
[Check out his "three law's of robotics", and his developments
of them].
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