Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

From: Jason Joel Thompson (jasonjthompson@home.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 11:33:26 MDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene Leitl" <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 1:24 AM
Subject: Re: Why would AI want to be friendly?

> Jason Joel Thompson writes:
>
> > The question remains (and I'll rephrase for clarity:)
> >
> > Does truly superior intelligence require free will?
>
> Can you tell random from pseudorandom, without further knowledge about
> the generation source?

This is an interesting question.

My immediate temptation was to answer 'no.'

However if a number generator is pseudo-random, then it applies is a logic
or process by which it generates its numbers, which in theory I imagine
might be detectable given a sufficiently large sample and sufficiently smart
pattern recognition software.

One could assign a probability of being truly random to such a string of
numbers. (Which is all one could do in any case.)

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