I know there is a similar post to this, but I thought this article called for a whole new post.

http://www.a-i.com/show_tree.asp?id=19&level=2&root=12

I came across that article today. It's about HAL, a neural net "child" Artificial Intelligence. It's creators started from scratch and talk to it so it can learn. It gets an encouraging positive "reward" if its response is acceptable to whoever it is talking with. So far it's developing just as a normal child.

Theoretically it will eventually learn itself into a mature intelligence mimicking that of any normal human(or perhaps even smarter).

I'm really amazed at how it's developing. Especially looking at it's "First Words".

It also got me thinking about the future of it. Like when it matures, what would it think about being just a program, and not being human, or even alive? If maybe it'd go through an angsty teenage phase, haha.


After reading the article, would you agree that this program is conscious?