From: Robert Wasley (rpwasley@pacbell.com)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 15:23:18 MDT
Robert Wasley wrote:
Instead part of the system will be the location of a host
> > of independent intelligence
> > systems, coupled with their agents, each built with particular roles
to
> > play.
>
Ben Goetzel replied:
> I am not at all convinced that the separation between 'individual' and
> 'society' as we now understand it will be applicable to AI minds, for
a
> number of reasons.
>
> IN my view, probably the various AI minds on the net will be less
individual
> than human minds, but not quite blurred into one overall-net-mind
whole
I am not clear regarding your reference to the separation between
"individual" and "society" with
when speaking of AI systems. The 'individualism' will result because
1)AI
systems will be designed
with different roles to play, such as weather prediction (or control)
overseeing the monetary
management of companies and countries, medical diagnosis, resource
managment,
engineering, etc. 2) Ultimately how they are programmed to interact with
people and 3) a resulting alterations to (or growth of) the programming
as
a result of real social interation
between these systems and people. 4) How these factors will influence
the
interactions
and relationships between AI systems themselves also can not be over
looked.
Yes, perhapes they could blurr more with an Internet with a greater
tendency
than human minds only because they may not be able to 'believe' they are
individuals like we do. Otherwise the situation would be of little
difference in this respect between them and us.
Robert Wasley
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