Submission + - aliens and artificial intelligence (bbc.co.uk)
chichilalescu writes: There's an article on BBC discussing the way chimps react to death: "Chimpanzees deal with death in much the same way as humans, studies suggest.
Scientists in Scotland filmed a group of chimps grooming and caressing an elderly female who died, and remaining subdued for several days afterwards.
Other researchers saw females carrying around the bodies of their dead children. Both studies are reported in the journal Current Biology."
I thought that since there recentyl was the Stephen Hawking don't talk to aliens stuff, this would be a good point to start thinking about what it means to be self-aware.
Here we are trying to find aliens and to build intelligent machines. But we are ignoring our cousins who can talk, can feel, and can probably help us understand our own emotions.
So why aren't we trying to teach chimps to read and write? Why do people spend money on MMORPGs (or whatever), when they could try to connect to a different species, and explore the problems of intelligence and consciousness?
Scientists in Scotland filmed a group of chimps grooming and caressing an elderly female who died, and remaining subdued for several days afterwards.
Other researchers saw females carrying around the bodies of their dead children. Both studies are reported in the journal Current Biology."
I thought that since there recentyl was the Stephen Hawking don't talk to aliens stuff, this would be a good point to start thinking about what it means to be self-aware.
Here we are trying to find aliens and to build intelligent machines. But we are ignoring our cousins who can talk, can feel, and can probably help us understand our own emotions.
So why aren't we trying to teach chimps to read and write? Why do people spend money on MMORPGs (or whatever), when they could try to connect to a different species, and explore the problems of intelligence and consciousness?
