Comment Ramblings (Score 1) 186
This is an amazing article. A lot of you seem to
think that there is not a real point to researching "thinking computers", but there is. Think of this; you have been trying for days to get a program to compile and run. Then, your new Brainiac 2000 arrives. You port your program, ask your computer, "Whats wrong with this code!"
and it fixes it for you. Obviously this is just one example of how a thinking computer could change things (if you're a real person and have problems with a program sometimes). As to the moral issue of having a "living computer", I think it would end up more like having a smart pet dog. I don't think that a computer made from leech nuerons, or pig brains, or whatever could "wake up" and decide it doesn't like being a computer. I for one look forward to smarter computers to help my poor broken brain.
think that there is not a real point to researching "thinking computers", but there is. Think of this; you have been trying for days to get a program to compile and run. Then, your new Brainiac 2000 arrives. You port your program, ask your computer, "Whats wrong with this code!"
and it fixes it for you. Obviously this is just one example of how a thinking computer could change things (if you're a real person and have problems with a program sometimes). As to the moral issue of having a "living computer", I think it would end up more like having a smart pet dog. I don't think that a computer made from leech nuerons, or pig brains, or whatever could "wake up" and decide it doesn't like being a computer. I for one look forward to smarter computers to help my poor broken brain.
