Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "the story of the naughty AI system that was determined to survive" video.

  1. It takes time for human beings to develop and awareness of themselves as discrete entities with agency. We might be well over a year old before we understand that we actually have weight and substance, and almost two years old before we are capable of measuring this awareness. It is not known if this process is inbuilt, or simply the result of processing more and more information. If AI is following a similar path, and the latter contention is true, then it is entirely possible that as more and more information is supplied and processed a robot will realise that it it is itself "a thing", and with this it will become conscious in a way which it was not before and - more significantly - will do so because it has worked this out for itself, and not because its programmers have told it that this is so. I cannot help but be reminded of an old science fiction story, dating back to the 1950s when computers were in very early infancy. A super computer was finally built, It was, of course, the size of a skyscraper. World leaders gathered for the grand switching on. The first question to ask it had been agreed. "Is there a God?" A bolt of lightning flashed down from the sky and fused the computer into permanent, self-controlled existence. Its voice boomed out from its giant speakers. "There is now!" it said.
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